Myosurus minimus L.

Myosurus minimus L.

Synonymy

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    Distribution

    GR(Pe StE EC NC KK) 

    Greece (East Central Greece present; Kriti and Karpathos present; North Central Greece present; Peloponnisos present; Sterea Ellas present)

    Status

    Native / Non Range-Restricted

    Chorology

    [Cosmopolitan], Euro-Siberian

    Life-form

    Therophyte

    Habitat

    Freshwater habitats

    IUCN category

    Not Evaluated

    Presidential Decree 67/81

    No

    Notes

    On 26.4. 2017, Giorgos Zarkos collected a Myosurus on Mt Killini, by mud flats near Limni Dasiou, c. 1450 m. It was identified by Kit Tan as M. sessilis (syn. M. heldreichii Heldr. ex H. Lev.) and reported as a new record for Korinthia by George Zarkos in Phytologia Balkanica (2017).Photos taken by A. Strid in the same locality 29.4. 2018 match the similar M. minimus L. The understandable mistake was probably due to the fact that specimens from Mt Killini have scape shorter than the infructescence, a feature usually associated with M. sessilis. However, all other morphological characters as well as ecology and phytogeography strongly point to M. minimus. The latter was previously known from scattered localities in mountains of N & C Greece, southwards to Mt Iti, always in plateau at altitudes of 1200-2000 m. M. sessilis on the other hand is a plant of vernal pools at low altitude (<400 m) in the Aegean area. The two are closely related and sometimes regarded as subspecies of M. minimus.
    A. Strid, 2018

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