Anthyllis aurea Host

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

Anthyllis aurea Host

Anthyllis aurea Host in Fl. Austriac. 2: 319 (1831)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Anthyllis aurea; family: Fabaceae ; genus: Anthylllis ; specificEpithet: aurea; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: Mt. Achladovouno, just below the summit ridge; verbatimElevation: 1343 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°10′; verbatimLongitude: 24°47′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 4 July 2021; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: collectionID: 47; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

A Balkan Peninsula endemic known to occur in the northern parts of Greece, with Mt. Pangeo, Mt. Orvilos, Mt. Menikio and Mt. Falakro shaping its distribution to the NE ( Akeroyd 1986). The new population on Mt. Achladovouno is the easternmost known record in the Greek territory.