Soldanella chrysosticta Kress subsp. chrysosticta
Synonymy
Taxon info
Soldanella chrysosticha subsp. chrysosticha has recently been found on Mt Beles by the Bulgarian border, flowering in damp grassland over micaceous schist near a patch of melting snow. The nominate subspecies occurs in Bulgaria and subsp. pelia occurs locally on Mt Pilio (EC Greece); both are closely related to S. rhodopaea. The genus Soldanella has c. 16 species and several subspecies, often rather narrowly defined, all in mountains of C, E & S Europe.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. 354 [Plate 19.7]
