Dianthus petraeus orbelicus (Velen.) Greuter & Burdet 1982

Doumas, Panayiotis, Goula, Katerina & Constantinidis, Theophanis, 2022, Thirty-two new and noteworthy floristic records from north-eastern Greece, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 81817-81817 : 81817

Dianthus petraeus orbelicus (Velen.) Greuter & Burdet 1982

Dianthus petraeus subsp. orbelicus (Velen.) Greuter & Burdet in Willdenowia 12: 187 (1982)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Dianthus petraeus subsp. orbelicus; family: Caryophyllaceae ; genus: Dianthus ; specificEpithet: petraeus; infraspecificEpithet: orbelicus; taxonRank: subspecies; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: Mt. Achladovouno, ca. 700m NE of the main summit; verbatimElevation: 1165 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°10′; verbatimLongitude: 24°48′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 4 July 2021; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: collectionID: 50; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

This is a range-restricted subspecies, endemic to the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. In Greece, it is only known from the mountains of the NE floristic region: Athos, Belles, Pangeo, Menikio, Orvilos, Falakro and Rodopi ( Strid 1997b). The new locality on Mt. Achladovouno extends the Greek distribution of the subspecies to the east.