Asphodeline taurica (Pall.) Endl.

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

Asphodeline taurica (Pall.) Endl.

Asphodeline taurica (Pall.) Endl. in Cat. Horti Vindob. 1: 142 (1842)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: K. Goula; Taxon : scientificName: Asphodeline taurica; family: Asphodelaceae ; genus: Asphodeline ; specificEpithet: taurica; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Dramas; verbatimLocality: Mt. Orvilos, ca. 1 km SE of the main summit; verbatimElevation: 1760 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°22′; verbatimLongitude: 23°73′; Identification: identifiedBy: K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 29 May 2016; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Photograph Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: K. Goula, U. Gerhard & M. Vlachos; Taxon : scientificName: Asphodeline taurica; family: Asphodelaceae ; genus: Asphodeline ; specificEpithet: taurica; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Kavalas; verbatimLocality: Mt. Pangeo, above abandoned forest settlement; verbatimElevation: 1290 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°54′; verbatimLongitude: 24°08′; Identification: identifiedBy: K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 4 June 2019; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Photograph Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Asphodeline taurica; family: Asphodelaceae ; genus: Asphodeline ; specificEpithet: taurica; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: Mt. Achladovouno, 350 m NE of the main summit; verbatimElevation: 1300 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°10′; verbatimLongitude: 24°48′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 16 May 2021; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: collectionID: 23; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

Scattered in the mountains of north and central Greece, Asphodeline taurica reaches Sterea Ellas and north Peloponnisos to the south, with its southernmost Greek locality on Mt. Chelmos ( Goulimis 1960, Andersson 1991b, Authier 1994, Authier 2002, Tan et al. 2006, Strid et al. 2020; herbarium specimens preserved in B with JACQ-IDs 655330 and 655358). In the floristic region of NE Greece, the species has been reported from Mt. Falakro ( Tan et al. 2006), Mt. Papikio ( Andersson 1991b) and Mt. Angistro (JACQ-ID 655358, B!). Our records (Fig. 4 ) add three new mountains to the distribution of this species, uncommon in Greece.

Figures

Figure 4. Asphodeline taurica from Mt. Pangeo (photo: K. Goula).