Minuartia stellata (E.D. Clarke) Maire & Petitm.
Taxon info
Minuartia stellata forms extensive, very dense, fresh-green mats over steep, rocky limestone slopes in mountains of Peloponnisos, S mainland Greece and S Albania. It was discovered on Mt Parnassos in 1801 by the British traveller E. D. Clarke, who subsequently described it as Cherleria stellata: “A new species of Cherleria, whose short, half-shrubby stems divided outwards into innumerable branchlets, terminated in little stars of leaves”.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. – Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem; Athens: Hellenic Botanical Society. p. 332
