Festuca galicicae Markgr.-Dann., 1978

Shuka, Lulezim & Tan, Kit, 2013, New records for Albania based on taxa from the Prespa National Park, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 1014-1014 : 1014

Festuca galicicae Markgr.-Dann., 1978

Poaceae

Festuca galicicae Markgr.-Dann. in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 76(3):324 (1978). Fig. 14

Festuca galicicae Type:― F.Y.R. Macedonia] Galičica Planina, 2210 m, 9 July 1939, Horvat (holotype ZA).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Dieterich & Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Dry Mt, N of Pllaja e Pusit; verbatimElevation: 2108 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°53'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°50'E; Event: eventDate: 8 July 2011; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Dieterich & Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Sheshi i Rinisë; verbatimElevation: 1863 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°48'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°51'E; Event: eventDate: 10 July 2011; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Dieterich & Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Buza e Korites; verbatimElevation: 1904 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°47'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°50'E; Event: samplingProtocol: 10 July 2011; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 5825; recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: southern part of Dry Mt; verbatimElevation: 1817-1900 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°49'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°51'E; Event: eventDate: 11 July 2011; Record Level: institutionCode: TIR!

Ecology

Phenology

Flowering in the first half of July.

Habitat

Alpine pastures between 1820 and 2200 m together with Astragalus lacteus , Helictotrichon convolutum , Carex kitaibeliana , Poa annua , Gnaphalium hoppeanum , Onobrychis viccifolia , Sesleria coerulea , Rhinanthus nigricans , and Viola eximia . ― New to Albania.

Distribution

Previously considered endemic to F.Y.R. Macedonia.