Biebersteinia orphanidis Boiss.
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Biebersteinia orphanidis is one of the most spectacular discoveries by Theodoros Orphanides, arguably the leading Greek botanist of the 19th century, who found it on Mt Killini in 1851. It was not rediscovered until 1994 (see Yannitsaros & al. in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 120: 239–242. 1996), and is now known from a few small populations in the mountains of N Peloponnisos, growing in open depressions in Abies cephalonica woodland, often together with Adonis cyllenea (Plate 20: 1). The species is known also from SC Anatolia, growing in openings of Abies and Cedrus woodland.A
A. Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. & Tzanoudakis, D. 2013: Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. 31: p. 340 [Plate 12.5]
