Pedicularis orthantha Griseb.

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

Pedicularis orthantha Griseb.

Pedicularis orthantha Griseb. in Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2(4): 15 (1844)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Pedicularis orthantha; family: Orobanchaceae ; genus: Pedicularis ; specificEpithet: orthantha; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis ; verbatimLocality: Mt. Rodopi, area of Koula; verbatimElevation: 1565 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°19′; verbatimLongitude: 24°49′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 23 May 2021; habitat: rocky places, in openings of forest with Pinus peuce; Record Level: collectionID: 33; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

A range-restricted Balkan endemic with a very limited distribution in Greece, where only two records from the mountains of Voras (NC Greece) and Falakro (NE Greece) are known ( Raus 1991). This is the third Greek population (Fig. 20 ) and the easternmost border of the species distribution in the country.

Figures

Figure 20. Pedicularis orthantha from Mt. Rodopi (photo: P. Doumas).