Festuca amethystina orientalis Krajina, Acta Bot. Bohem. 9: 214 (1930), non alior

Novikov, Andriy, 2023, An annotated nomenclatural checklist of endemic vascular plants distributed in the Ukrainian Carpathians, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103921-103921 : 103921

Festuca amethystina orientalis Krajina, Acta Bot. Bohem. 9: 214 (1930), non alior

Festuca amethystina = Festuca amethystina subsp. inarmata (Schur) Krajina, Veröff. Geobot. Inst. Rübel Zürich 10: 29 (1933); GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/7651353; WFO: https://list.worldfloraonline.org/wfo-0001097471

Festuca amethystina = Festuca amethystina subsp. amethystina var. amethystina f. marmarossica ( Zapał.) Beldie, Fl. Rep. Pop. Soc. Rom. 12: 557 (1972)

Festuca amethystina = Festuca amethystina subsp. amethystina var. amethystina f. pauciflora (A. Nyár. & Nyár.) Beldie, Fl. Rep. Soc. Rom. 12: 557 (1972)

Festuca amethystina = Festuca amethystina [unranked] a Festuca amethystina marmarossica Zapał., Consp. Fl. Galic. Crit. 1: 65 (1906) [ortho. var.] *

Festuca amethystina = Festuca amethystina [unranked] a Festuca amethystina marmarossiensis Zapał., Consp. Fl. Galic. Crit. 3: 230 (1911)

Festuca amethystina = Festuca amethystina [unranked] a Festuca amethystina marmarossiensis f. doamnensis Zapał., Consp. Fl. Galic. Crit. 3: 230 (1911)

Festuca amethystina = Festuca amethystina f. pauciflora A. Nyár. & Nyár., Studii Cercet. Biol. Ser. Bot. 16(2): 109 (1964)

Festuca heterophylla = Festuca heterophylla var. inarmata Schur ex Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 792 (1866); BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7364#page/812

Festuca heterophylla = Festuca heterophylla var. setifolia Schur ex Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 792 (1866); BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7364#page/812

Festuca inarmata = Festuca inarmata Schur, Verh. Mitth. Siebenbürg. Vereins Naturwiss. Hermannstadt 10: 177 (1859) *; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/4122548; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/402888-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000870754; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/402888-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11528081#page/421

Festuca amethystina - Festuca amethystina L., Sp. Pl. 1: 74 (1753) [p. p., tantum quod plantas ucrain. carpat.] *; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/4113725; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/402336-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000869744; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/402336-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358093#page/86

Conservation status

In Ukraine - LC ( Onyshchenko et al. 2022).

Distribution

SE Carpathian endemic.

Notes

Two (https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/402336-1, accessed on 05.06.2023) to four (https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4427a965-d232-4346-97dd-5275c9dbdb31, accessed on 05.06.2023) subspecies of Festuca amethystina L. are recognised - subsp. amethystina (distributed almost in the whole of Europe), subsp. orientalis (= subsp. inarmata , endemic to the south-eastern Carpathians; its presence in the Balkans doubted by Kliment et al. (2016)), subsp. Festuca amethystina kummeri (Beck) Markgr.-Dann. (sporadically represented in South and Central Europe) and subsp. Festuca kummeri ritschlii (Hack.) Markgr.-Dann. (occurs in Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Romania - see Jakubowska-Gabara (1994), Indreica (2007), Kiedrzyński et al. (2015), Łazarski (2016), Rewicz et al. (2018)). Euro+Med, based on personal communication with B. Valdés in 2004, but without any further confirmation, also declares the presence of F. amethystina subsp. ritschlii (https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d2e8901d-25eb-420d-8c69-3b4b93a622d9, accessed on 05.06.2023), as well as subsp. Festuca amethystina orientalis (https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/aa72de8f-989c-48f8-b841-662e5460634b, accessed on 05.06.2023) in Ukraine. Roleček et al. (2019) also suggest the presence of F. amethystina subsp. orientalis in the Ukrainian Carpathians instead of F. amethystina subsp. A.ethystina. However, at the moment, there is no evidence confirming the presence of F. amethystina subsp. ritschlii or F. amethystina subsp. orientalis in the flora of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Only F. amethystina subsp. orientalis is mentioned by Chopyk and Fedoronchuk (2015) and other Ukrainian authors (e.g. Bednarska (2007)). On the other hand, Rewicz et al. (2018) recently stressed the applicability of morphological traits for the delimitation of infraspecific taxa within F. amethystina. They pointed out the need for a taxonomic revision of this species to clarify its biogeography.