Petrorhagia cretica (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood

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

Petrorhagia cretica (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood

Petrorhagia cretica (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 3: 142 (1964)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: K. Goula; Taxon : scientificName: Petrorhagia cretica; family: Caryophyllaceae ; genus: Petrorhagia ; specificEpithet: cretica; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Evrou; verbatimLocality: ca. 5 km N of Avantas Village; verbatimElevation: 144 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°58′; verbatimLongitude: 25°54′; Identification: identifiedBy: K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 1 June 2019; habitat: rocky and gravelly places, on igneous substrates; Record Level: collectionID: 2881A; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

A very rare species in Greece, having been collected only three times from the floristic regions of North Central (NC), South Pindos (SPi) and Sterea Ellas (StE; Georgiou 1997, Pirini et al. 2010). Hayek (1927) reported it from Thraki (Thrace), but without any further information regarding its locality. Therefore, it is not known whether this reference should be attributed to the Greek, Turkish or Bulgarian part of the territory. The above-cited collection confirms the existence of the species in the Greek part of Thraki and consequently, adds a new floristic record to the NE region.