Saxifraga ferdinandi-coburgi Kellerer & Suend .

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

Saxifraga ferdinandi-coburgi Kellerer & Suend.

Saxifraga ferdinandi-coburgi Kellerer & Sünd. in Allg. Bot. Z. Syst. 1901: 116 (1901)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Saxifraga ferdinandi-coburgi; family: Saxifragaceae ; genus: Saxifraga ; specificEpithet: ferdinandi-coburgi; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: ca. 2.5 km NNW of the abandoned Village of Imera; verbatimElevation: 1190 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°08′; verbatimLongitude: 24°45′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 30 April 2021; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope facing north; Record Level: collectionID: 9; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Saxifraga ferdinandi-coburgi; family: Saxifragaceae ; genus: Saxifraga ; specificEpithet: ferdinandi-coburgi; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: ca. 2.3 km NW of the village of Chrisa; verbatimElevation: 787 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°08′; verbatimLongitude: 24°50′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 16 April 2020; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Photograph Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Saxifraga ferdinandi-coburgi; family: Saxifragaceae ; genus: Saxifraga ; specificEpithet: ferdinandi-coburgi; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: Mt. Achladovouno, below the summit ridge; verbatimElevation: 1341 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°10′; verbatimLongitude: 24°47′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 16 May 2021; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Photograph

Taxon discussion

A range-restricted Balkan endemic species that occurs only in SW Bulgaria and NE Greece. Normally a plant of high altitude (over 1500 m) and reported so far from four Greek mountains (Falakro, Pangeo, Orvilos, Menikio; Anagnostopoulos and Strid 2002) and three Bulgarian ones (Slavyanka, Pirin, Central Rodopi; Petrova and Vladimirov 2010). Our three new populations appear to be at the easternmost border of the species’s distribution and grow at the unusually low altitude of 787-1341 m.