Anthericum ramosum L.

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

Anthericum ramosum L.

Anthericum ramosum L. in Sp. Pl. 1: 310 (1753)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: K. Goula & N.A. Katsaros; Taxon : scientificName: Anthericum ramosum; family: Anthericaceae ; genus: Anthericum ; specificEpithet: ramosum; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Dramas; verbatimLocality: Mt. Orvilos, 2 km NE of Katafito Village; verbatimElevation: 860 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°21′; verbatimLongitude: 23°42′; Identification: identifiedBy: K. Goula & Th. Constantinidis; Event: eventDate: 4 August 2021; habitat: rocky, calcareous slope; Record Level: collectionID: 3230; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

A new record for the Greek flora. Anthericum ramosum , the generitype of Anthericum L., has a predominantly central European distribution that reaches parts of Russia and Asiatic Turkey to the East ( Webb 1980, Matthews 1984). Although reported " in Europae australioris " by Linnaeus (1762) (type: Herb. Linn. no. 432.6, LINN!, see Jarvis et al. 1993) it has not been reported in Greece so far. Our specimen from the foothills of Mt. Orvilos (Fig. 1 ), at a linear distance of ca. 5.5 km south of the Greek-Bulgarian border, has a paniculate inflorescence with 2-6, 6.5-11 cm long branches, white tepals 9-12 mm long, a straight style and an almost spherical, obtuse capsule 5-5.5 x 4.5-6 mm with a short remnant of the style base. It differs considerably from A. liliago L., which is widespread in Greece, being reported from the south mainland (north Peloponnisos) to the northern borders ( Andersson 1991a). The latter has a simple or sparingly branched inflorescence, larger tepals (13-20 mm), a somewhat curved style and a longer (8-11 x 6-7 mm) capsule with an acute apex.

Figures

Figure 1. Anthericum ramosum from Mt Orvilos (photo: K. Goula).