Scabiosa balcanica Velen.

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

Scabiosa balcanica Velen.

Scabiosa balcanica Velen. in Fl. Bulg. 243 (1891)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Scabiosa balcanica; family: Dipsacaceae ; genus: Scabiosa ; specificEpithet: balcanica; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: Mt. Achladovouno, ca. 550 m NE of the main summit; verbatimElevation: 1220 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: 52; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

Scabiosa balcanica is a range-restricted Balkan endemic species distributed in Greece, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia ( Petrova and Vladimirov 2010, Dimopoulos et al. 2013, Tomović et al. 2014). The only report from the Greek floristic region of the NE seems to be on Mt. Falakro ( Kokkini 1991). This is the second population discovered in the NE region of Greece.