Ornithogalum exscapum Ten.
Synonymy
Notes
A chiefly Italian species with a transadriatic range comprising westernmost Greece from Kerkira and Vikos to Mt. Killini. Records from other parts of Greece (Landström (1989: 22, 30; Strid & Tan 1991: 690) refer to O. collinum (Speta 1990a: 116, 157, 162). Conspecifity of both taxa, as erroneously presumed by Landström (1989, followed in Strid & Tan 1991), is incorrect. O. exscapum exhibits an epigeal cotyledon, O. collinum on the contrary a hypogeal cotyledon. The former is rare, the latter abundant in Greece (see Speta 1990a for details).