New records for Albania based on taxa from the Prespa National Park Author Shuka, Lulezim Author Tan, Kit text Biodiversity Data Journal 2013 1 1014 1014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e1014 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e1014 1314-2828--1014 Stachys plumosa Griseb., 1844 Lamiaceae Stachy plumosa Griseb., Spicilegium Florae Rumelicae et Bithynicae 2(4):139 (1844). Fig. 12 Stachys plumosa Type:― [F.Y.R. MACEDONIA] inter Komanova et Strazin (substr. trachyt.), Friedrichsthal 447 (GOET). Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka ; Location: country: Albania ; verbatimLocality: Prespa area, near the village Cerja and to the NW of Kapshtica village; verbatimElevation: 1170 m ; verbatimLatitude: 40°37'N ; verbatimLongitude: 21°01'E ; Event: eventDate: 6 July 2012 ; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuka ; Location: country: Albania ; verbatimLocality: near Zagradeci village, Lake Mikri Prespa; verbatimElevation: 880 m ; verbatimLatitude: 40°51'N ; verbatimLongitude: 20°57'E ; Event: eventDate: 13 July 2011 ; Record Level: basisOfRecord: observation Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordNumber: 5587; recordedBy: Shuka ; Location: country: Albania ; verbatimLocality: northwestern slopes of Ivani Mt; verbatimElevation: 1233 m ; verbatimLatitude: 40°44'N ; verbatimLongitude: 20°53'E ; Event: eventDate: 6 July 2011 ; Record Level: institutionCode: TIR! Ecology Phenology Flowering at the end of May till mid-June, fruiting in June and July. Habitat Stachys plumosa was observed for the first time in Albania near a spring in a serpentine area near the village Zagradeci at Mikri Prespa. It occurs at altitudes between 880 and 1350 m, in dry pastures and rocky places in association with Alkanna pindicola , Buxus sempervirens , Comandra umbellata subsp. elegans , Convolvulus elegantissimus , Dianthus haematocalyx subsp. pindicola , Erodium guicciardii , Fraxinus ornus , Haplophyllum boissieranum , Helichrysum plicatum , Hyssopus officinalis and Ostrya carpinifolia . It was also recently recorded in clearings of Carpinus and Buxus on the limestone slopes of Ivani Mt and near Kapshtica village, close to the border with Greece. ― New for Albania. Distribution Stachys plumosa has not yet been reported from Albanian territory, although known from the F.Y.R. Macedonia and Greek parts of the PIP. It is a Balkan endemic with a wide distribution on mainland Greece (northern Greece to S Pindos), W Bulgaria and F.Y.R. Macedonia.