Berberis cretica L.
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Taxon info
Berberis cretica shrub was known already to Linnaeus, based on an illustration in Prospero Alpini’s posthumously published De Plantis Exoticis (1627). The total distribution comprises Greece, W & S Anatolia and Cyprus; there is a closely related species in Syria and Lebanon. It is common in Kriti, forming spiny thickets at 1000–1800 m, often as undergrowth in Cupressus woodland, and scattered in the E parts of the mainland as well as Samos, Chios and Samothraki.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. 326 [Plate 5.4]
