Viola eximia Formanek , 1900

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

Viola eximia Formanek, 1900

Violaceae

Viola eximia Formánek in Verhandlungen dês Naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn 38:221 (1900). Fig. 15

Viola eximia Type:― Described from Mt Kajmakčalan on the Greek–F.Y.R. Macedonia border (BRNM).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Dry Mt, Maja e Zonjës; verbatimElevation: 1969 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°49'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°52'E; Event: eventDate: 22 May 2006; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Pllaja e Pusit; verbatimElevation: 2224 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°54'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°49'E; Event: eventDate: 7 July 2011; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Ivani Mt; verbatimElevation: 1750 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°44'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°53'E; Event: eventDate: 9 July 2011; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 5312; recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Ivani Mt; verbatimElevation: 1662 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°43'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°53'E; Event: eventDate: 29 May 2012; Record Level: institutionCode: TIR!

Ecology

Phenology

Flowering mid-May to early June, fruiting in July.

Habitat

Subalpine and alpine pastures of the Prespa watershed. Viola eximia is an early flowering species found in the dry pastures and rocky slopes of Dry Mt and in clearings of scrub or dwarf scrub on Ivani Mt. Several interesting plants were found in full flower in both areas, viz., Achillea abrotanoides , Aethionema saxatile , Arabis bryoides , Asphodeline taurica , Barbarea bracteosa , Centaurea cana , Crocus cvijicii , Crocus chrysanthus , Cytisus tommasinii , Fritillaria montana , Morina persica , Ornithogalum umbellatum , Orobanche gracilis , Oxytropis purpurea , Saxifraga scardica , Stachys germanica , Thymus boissieri , Thymus longicaulis and Vicia onobrychioides . ― New to Albania.

Distribution

Occurring in the mountains of N Greece (NC, Prespa National Park), F.Y.R. Macedonia, Dry and Ivani Mts in Albania, from 1600 to 2250 m. Viola eximia subsp. tringiana Erben occurs on Mt Tringia in S Pindos.