Cynoglossum germanicum (Boraginaceae) – an endangered species in Bulgarian flora
Cynoglossum germanicum (Boraginaceae) – an endangered species in Bulgarian flora
Cynoglossum germanicum Jacq. (C_. montanum_ Lam. non Hayek) is a species so far found only once in the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria in July 1899, by Nejčev, I. (1908) in the Central Balkan Mountain (the region of Gabrovo, the Shipchenska Planina Range, in the locality of Malusha). The species is enlisted in the Bulgarian Red Data Book (Evstatieva 1984) as an extinct. C. germanicum is legally protected by the Biological Diversity Act. Annex 3 (2007). The current publication reports finding for the second time of C. germanicum Jacq. It occurs in shady and wooded places within the mesophylic beech belt at about 1000 m altitude.