Contribution to the knowledge or flora and vegetation or Khrisi islet (Crete, SE Mediterranean sea)
Contribution to the knowledge or flora and vegetation or Khrisi islet (Crete, SE Mediterranean sea)
The results of a floristic and vegetational investigation on the Aegean islet of Khrisi are pre- sented. Its vascular flora numbers 172 taxa (species, subspecics and hybrids), 92 of which are new records. A species new to science, Limonium chrisianum, is described and illustrated and two new combinations, Limonium roridum and Teucrium dumulosum, are proposed. Furthermore, an iconography of the fruited Bupleurum gaudianum, a rare endemic known up to now only from the islet of Gévdos is provided. The phytosociological analysis identifies 8 associations, that have been put in evidence by belonging to relevés of maquis, phrygana, salt marshes, psammophilous and rupicolous vegetation. The observed association, six of which are here described for the first time, are outlined from the floristic, ecological and chorological point of view. Besides, a new alliance, Cichorio-Limonion roridi, is proposed.