The website on the Flora of Greece: a) brings together data from authoritative sources, b) contains information on all species and subspecies of vascular plants occurring in Greece and c) is updated continuously.
NEW information and new fields in Version III (April 2020)
The field of Status has been differentiated for each taxon as follows:
- Native/Range-Restricted; Native/Non Range-Restricted
- Alien/Established; Alien/Non-Established; Alien/Establishment unknown
New field:
- IUCN category has been added for evaluated taxa of the vascular plants of Greece (Greek Red Data Book, 1995, 2009, European IUCN Red List) (1019 taxa)
New field:
- Presidential Decree 67/81: all taxa listed in the national list of protected species (899 taxa)
Vascular plants diversity of Greece (version III)
In April 2020, the vascular flora of Greece comprises 5885 species and 2000 subspecies (native and naturalized), representing 6760 taxa, belonging to 1087 genera and 184 families. The full dataset has a total of 7890 records, comprising species and subspecies plus ten sections of Taraxacum and two aggregates (Portulaca oleracea aggr., Taraxacum mediterraneum aggr.).
The only species for which the status of “native but extinct” was confirmed are Isoetes heldreichii (SPi, Isoetaceae) according to Troia & Greuter (2015) and Stratiotes aloides (NC, Hydrocharitaceae). Regarding Staphylea pinnata, it was supposed to be extinct in Greece by construction and flooding of the Thisavros dam (Nomos Dramas) in 1996 (Raus 2006). Recently, a rich population of S. pinnata was discovered further south in the central part of the Nestos gorge growing on inaccessible steep slopes on the western bank of the river (Mastrogianni et al., 2019, in Euro+Med-Checklist Notulae 11), representing the southernmost occurrence of the species in Europe.
The current version III of the “Flora of Greece” Web contains:
- 7885 valid taxa names
- 6556 synonyms and 820 misapplied names.
- 1066 “excluded taxa”, i.e. taxa disregarded as being reported in error, non-established aliens, non-stabilized hybrids, taxonomically enigmatic, or vanished from Greece
- 1483 comments/notes on taxa disregarded as being reported in error, non-established aliens, non-stabilized hybrids, taxonomically enigmatic, or vanished.
- 217 taxonomic and biogeographical notes (taxon info)
- Distribution maps showing occurrence of each taxon in the 13 floristic (phytogeographical) regions of Greece
- Status for each taxon (Native/Range-Restricted; Native/Non Range-Restricted; Alien/Established; Alien/Non-Established; Alien/Establishment unknown)
- Chorology for each taxon
- Life-form for each taxon
- Habitat for each taxon (falling mostly into one habitat category but may comprise two or more categories)
- IUCN category for each evaluated taxon (1019 taxa) (all the others are noted as non-evaluated)
- Presidential Decree 67/81 for the taxa included in the list (899 taxa)
- Photographs of taxa (5743 images)
- Bibliography
Photos and Contributors
5743 images representing 2082 species and 615 subspecies (a total of 2698 species and subspecies) are currently included in the FoG web.
Sincere thanks are due to the following contributors who have offered in a volunteer basis their images which have already been uploaded in the FoG web:
- Goula, Katerina
- Willing, Eckhard
- Turland, Nicholas
- Kalpoutzakis, Eleftherios
- Giannakis, Thomas
- Strid, Arne
- Nikitidis, Nikos
- Zografidis, Aris
- Zarkos, Georgios
- Charitonidou, Martha
- Bazos, Ioannis
- Delipetrou, Pinelopi
- Giannopoulos, Konstantinos
- Ioannidis, Vasilis
- Kofinas, Giannis
- Korakis, Giorgos
- Kipopoulos, Eleftherios
- Charalambidis, Stylianos
- Christodoulou, Vasilis
- Delahaye, Thierry
- Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis
- Dimopoulos, Panayotis
- Fassou, Georgia
- Flohe, Johannes
- Fournaraki, Christina
- Kleanthidis, Platon
- Axiotis, Makis
- Knud Thomsen
- Kokkoris, Ioannis
- Lansdown, Richard
- Lenton, Stephen
- Lubienski, Markus
- Lytras, Tassos
- Mermygkas, Dionysios
- Meyer, Stefan
- Nikolopoulou, Gisela
- Panitsa, Maria
- Papanikolaou, Thanasis
- Poirel, Alain
- Politis, Georgios
- Psimmenos, Nikos
- Raabe, Uwe
- Sakoulis, Tassos
- Sykora, Karle
- Trigas, Panagiotis
- Tsiftsis, Spyros
- Vercaigne, Marc
- Vidakis, Kostas
- Zachariadou, Tania
- Jagel, Armin
- Jordan, Jan