Euphorbia carniolica Jacq.

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

Euphorbia carniolica Jacq.

Euphorbia carniolica Jacq. in Fl. Austriac. 5(App.): 34, t. 14 (1778)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Euphorbia carniolica; family: Euphorbiaceae ; genus: Euphorbia ; specificEpithet: carniolica; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: ca. 1.2 km NW of Kotili Village; verbatimElevation: 627 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°20′; verbatimLongitude: 24°52′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas, K. Goula & Th. Constantinidis; Event: eventDate: 24 April 2021; habitat: Quercus forest, next to a small stream; Record Level: collectionID: 5; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Euphorbia carniolica; family: Euphorbiaceae ; genus: Euphorbia ; specificEpithet: carniolica; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: ca. 1.2 km NW of Kotili Village; verbatimElevation: 627 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°20′; verbatimLongitude: 24°52′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas, K. Goula & Th. Constantinidis; Event: eventDate: 11 May 2021; habitat: Quercus forest, next to a small stream; Record Level: collectionID: 15; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

A new record for the Greek flora (Fig. 19). Euphorbia carniolica is distributed in the area between the Alps (north Italy, Switzerland) and the Eastern Carpathians and extends to Poland and Ukraine to the north ( Smith and Tutin 1968). It is considered as a Euro-Siberian element by Geltman (2015) and an Illyricoid element by Trinajstić (1992), but its distribution justifies its placement to the south-east European elements. Τhe populations in the central parts of the Balkans and Romania seem to be the closest to the newly-discovered, quite isolated Greek population. This first Greek record forms the southernmost limit of the species’ distribution.