Poa carpatica carpatica (V. Jirasek ) Bernatova , Majovsky , Kliment & Topercer, Biologia (Bratislava), Sect. Bot. 61(4): 389-390 (2006)

Novikov, Andriy, 2023, An annotated nomenclatural checklist of endemic vascular plants distributed in the Ukrainian Carpathians, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103921-103921 : 103921

Poa carpatica carpatica (V. Jirasek) Bernatova, Majovsky, Kliment & Topercer, Biologia (Bratislava), Sect. Bot. 61(4): 389-390 (2006)

Poa carpatica ≡ Poa carpatica (V. Jirásek) Chopik, Visokogirna Fl. Ukrains’k. Karpat: 174 (1976); CoL: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/4KLGZ; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/4137163; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/77084794-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000908275; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/77084794-1; JACQ: https://prc.jacq.org/PRC450819; JACQ: https://prc.jacq.org/PRC450820; JACQ: https://prc.jacq.org/PRC450821; JACQ: https://prc.jacq.org/PRC450822; JACQ: https://prc.jacq.org/PRC450823; JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.prc450823; JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.prc450822; JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.prc450820

Poa nemoralis ≡ Poa nemoralis subsp. carpatica V. Jirásek, Veda Prir. 15: 207 (1934) *; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/6313736; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/77084793-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000908275; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/77084793-1

Poa nemoralis ≡ Poa nemoralis subsp. nemoralis var. carpatica (V. Jirásek) Soó, Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 17(1-2): 118 (1972); GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/4116723; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/882819-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000908275; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/882819-1

Poa balfourii = Poa balfourii f. carpatica Zapał., Spraw. Komis. Fizjogr. 39: 33 (1906)

Poa nemoralis = Poa nemoralis subsp. carpatica f. minoriformis V. Jirásek, Veda Prir. 15: 208 (1934); JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.prc450819; JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.prc450821

Poa balfourii - Poa balfourii auct. fl. ucrain. carpat., non Parn. *

Poa janczewskii - Poa janczewskii auct., non Zapał. [tantum quod plantas ucrain. carpat., alp. et subalp. altitud. solum]

Poa nemoralis - Poa nemoralis subsp. montana auct., non (Gaudin) Chrtek & V. Jirásek

Poa nemoralis - Poa nemoralis var. montana auct. fl. ucrain. carpat., non Gaudin *

Conservation status

In Ukraine - LC ( Onyshchenko et al. 2022).

Distribution

Pancarpathian endemic.

Notes

Two subspecies of P. carpatica (V. Jirásek) Chopik are recognised: subsp. Poa carpatica carpatica (endemic to the Western and Eastern Carpathians - Bernátová et al. (2006)) and subsp. Poa carpatica supramontana Bernátová, Májovský, Kliment & Topercer (narrow endemic to the Veľká Fatra Mts and Krivánska Malá Fatra Mts - Bernátová et al. (2006)).

Chopyk and Fedoronchuk (2015), on page 567, mention P. janczewskii Zapał. for rocks and screes in subalpine and alpine belts of the Ukrainian Carpathians, with synonyms P. balfourii auct., non Parn. and P. nemoralis subsp. carpatica V. Jirásek. At the same time, POWO (https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/204398-2, accessed on 05.06.2023), WFO (https://list.worldfloraonline.org/wfo-0000893213, accessed on 05.06.2023) and Worldplants (https://www.worldplants.de/world-plants-complete-list/complete-plant-list?name=Poa-palustris, accessed on 07.06.2023), as well as Tzvelev (1974), Tzvelev (1976) and Tzvelev (1995) suggest that P. janczewskii is a synonym not for P. carpatica , but for P. palustris L. Chopyk and Fedoronchuk (2015), on page 568, also independently recognise P. palustris , but indicate that it is widely distributed in the forests (i.e. lower altitudes), flooded meadows and other wet habitats of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Hence, Chopyk and Fedoronchuk (2015) delimit P. janczewskii and P. palustris by morphology and habitat preferences. In the original protologue of P. janczewskii , Zapałowicz (1906a), on pages 34-35, wrote that it occurs in wet places at the beginning of the River Chorniy Cheremosh near Mt. Koman in Chyvchyny Mts. at 1700 m altitude together with P. nemoralis var. pocutica Zapał. Simultaneously, Zapałowicz (1906a), on page 33, delimited P. balfourii f. carpatica Zapał. from the alpine and subalpine habitats. Hence, Zapałowicz’s original description of P. janczewskii is close to P. palustris , while his consideration of P. balfourii is consistent with P. carpatica . Nevertheless, in the Ukrainian Carpathians, many specimens from the alpine and subalpine belts are identified as P. janczewskii , suggesting that this species can probably reach much higher altitudes and can be confused with P. carpatica . Therefore, I include P. janczewskii as a misapplied synonym of P. carpatica subsp. carpatica .