Lomelosia rhodopensis (Stoj. & Stef.) Greuter & Burdet

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

Lomelosia rhodopensis (Stoj. & Stef.) Greuter & Burdet

Lomelosia rhodopensis (Stoj. & Stef.) Greuter & Burdet in Willdenowia 15(1): 75 (1985)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Lomelosia rhodopensis; family: Dipsacaceae ; genus: Lomelosia ; specificEpithet: rhodopensis; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: Mt. Achladovouno, ca. 300 m NE of the main summit; verbatimElevation: 1314 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°10′; verbatimLongitude: 24°48′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 4 July 2021; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: collectionID: 51; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

Lomelosia rhodopensis is a rare, range-restricted species endemic to NE Greece and south Bulgaria ( Kokkini 1991). Greek specimens had been collected only from Mt. Falakro ( Kokkini 1991), while an observation from Nomos Serron ( Tan and Kofinas 2020) added a second locality. This is the third confirmed population found in the Greek territory (Fig. 17 ).

Figures

Figure 17. Distribution map of Convolvulus suendermannii, Lomelosia rhodopensis, Drymocallis rupestris and Saxifraga pedemontana subsp. cymosa in Greece.