Alkanna areolata Boiss.
Placement status: name or taxon excluded (unspecific) (A single 19th century record of this species from Samos needs confirmation and is disregarded. Both Rechinger (1944: 451) and Huber-Morath (in Davis 1978: 430) cited a collection in 1887 by Forsyth-Major from Karvouni (Mt Ambelos) but apparently referring merely to the publication of Stefani & al. (1892: 52), without seeing the actual specimen. There are several collections of A. tubulosa from the same area. A. areolata occurs in W & SW Anatolia, and it is not impossible that it could extend to Samos.)