Onosma kittanae Strid ex Stefanovic , Kit Tan & Iatrou

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

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Onosma kittanae Strid ex Stefanovic , Kit Tan & Iatrou
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Onosma kittanae Strid ex Stefanovic, Kit Tan & Iatrou

Onosma kittanae Strid ex Stefanović, Kit Tan & Iatroú in Pl. Syst. Evol. 242(1-4): 157 (2003)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Onosma kittanae; family: Boraginaceae ; genus: Onosma ; specificEpithet: kittanae; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: ca. 2.4 km SE of Potamochori Village; verbatimElevation: 553 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°14′; verbatimLongitude: 25°04′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 15 May 2021; habitat: scrub, on serpentine; Record Level: collectionID: 19; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

Onosma kittanae was initially described as endemic to Greece ( Stevanović et al. 2003), until Teppner and Karl (2017) pointed out its similarities to O. pavlovae Petrova & Kit Tan ( O. bulgarica D. Pavlova non Velenovský) from Bulgaria and treated the latter as a synonym of O. kittanae . The species remains a rare, range-restricted Balkan endemic confined to the serpentine substrates of south Bulgaria and NE Greece. In Greece, only two localities were known so far: around the locus classicus in Nomos Evrou ( Stevanović et al. 2003, Teppner and Karl 2017) and between Organi and Chloi Villages of Nomos Rodopis ( Strid 2018). Our third, new locality (Fig. 10 View Figure 10 ) forms the westernmost distribution border for the species (Fig. 11 View Figure 11 ). According to the [B1ab(ii iii iv) + 2ab(ii iii iv)] criteria, O. kittanae fits the Endangered Category at national level ( IUCN 2012).

IUCN, , 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second edition. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iv + 32pp

Stevanovic, V., Tan, K., Iatrou, G., 2003. Distribution of the endemic Balkan flora on serpentine I. -obligate serpentine endemics. Plant Syst. Evol. 242: 149 - 170

Strid, A., 2018. New floristic records in the Balkans: 36. Phytologia Balcanica, 24 (2): 263-292

Teppner, H., Karl, R., 2017. Onosma kittanae (Boraginaceae - Lithospermeae). Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines fuer Steiermark 147: 77 - 97

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Figure 10. Onosma kittanae from Nomos Xanthis (photo: P. Doumas).

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Figure 11. Distribution map of Onosma kittanae, Aethionema saxatile subsp. rhodopaeum and Silene fetlerii in Greece and Bulgaria.