Centaurea rupestris subsp. kozanii Routsi & T. Georgiadis, 1994

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

Centaurea rupestris subsp. kozanii Routsi & T. Georgiadis, 1994

Asteraceae

Centaurea rupestris L. subsp. kozanii Routsi & T. Georgiadis in Candollea 49(2):368 (1994). Fig. 4

Centaurea rupestris subsp. kozanii Type:― [GREECE. Nomos & eparchia Kozanis] 6 km outside Kozani, on road to Ptolemais, 5 July 1989, Georgiadis & Routsi 7320 (holotype UPA).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Prespa area, Cerja Pass, between the villages of Zaroshka and Cerja; verbatimElevation: 1110 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°45'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°56'E; Event: eventDate: 15 July 2012; Record Level: collectionID: 6415; institutionCode: TIR!

Ecology

Phenology

Flowering in June and early July, fruiting mid-July to August.

Habitat

In clearings of open Quercus trojana forest or in limestone pastures with Eryngium campestre , Teucrium polium and various grasses, in a small area of less than one hectare. The population at the Cerja Pass is endangered, mainly by grazing cows. ― New for Albania.

Distribution

Centaurea rupestris comprises several subspecies in the Balkans. Centaurea rupestris subsp. kozanii occurs mainly on limestone substrate in NC Greece. It had been misidentified as Centaurea rupestris subsp. parnonia ( Halácsy) ( Gugler 1908:194) which was described from the summit area of Mt Parnon (Megali Tourla) in the Peloponnese, southern Greece (the type of Centaurea parnonia Halácsy ( Halácsy 1898:648) is Orphanides 19/31 July 1858, ATHU, WU-Hal!).