Centaurea marmorea Bornm. & Soska

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

Centaurea marmorea Bornm. & Soska

Centaurea marmorea Bornm. & Soska in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 42: 127 (1937)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: K. Goula & N.A. Katsaros; Taxon : scientificName: Centaurea marmorea; family: Asteraceae ; genus: Centaurea ; specificEpithet: marmorea; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Dramas; verbatimLocality: Mt. Falakro; verbatimElevation: 1750 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°54′; verbatimLongitude: 24°08′; Identification: identifiedBy: K. Goula & Th. Constantinidis; Event: eventDate: 3 August 2021; habitat: rocky slopes and road embankments, on marbles; Record Level: collectionID: 3229; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

A rare, local and range-restricted Balkan endemic shared between North Macedonia and Greece. It has been recorded with certainty only from the Prilep area (North Macedonia) and Mt. Orvilos (NE Greece, see Gamal-Eldin and Wagenitz 1991). The new locality on Falakro (Fig. 6) adds a new mountain locality to the species’ distribution, which is thus extended to the east (Fig. 7 ).

Figures

Figure 7. Distribution map of Centaurea marmorea, Jacobaea othonnae subsp. anomala, Hesperis matronalis subsp. matronalis and Saponaria stranjensis in Greece.