Flora and vegetation of Mt Aphrodisio (Peloponnisos, Greece)
Flora and vegetation of Mt Aphrodisio (Peloponnisos, Greece)
This paper presents 650 specific and infraspecific taxa of the vascular flora of Mt Aphrodisio, NW Peloponnisos. All the records are new as the mountain was until now floristically unexplored. For each taxon, local distribution and habitat types are presented. Crypsis alopecuroides is new record for Peloponnisos. Its flora comprises also 29 Greek and 22 Balkan endemics. Some of the records concern rare taxa in Greece, in Peloponnisos or regional endemics, which are, therefore, chorologically significant, such as Arenaria guicciardii, Alkanna methanaea, Erysimum pectinatum, Anthemis brachmannii, Silene gigantea subsp. hellenica, Delphinium hellenicum, Galium capitatum, Verbascum daenzeri, Trifolium tenuifolium, Glinus lotoides, Helleborus odorus subsp. cyclophyllus, Galanthus reginae-olgae subsp. vernalis, Bromus parvispiculatus, Crypsis schoenoides, Gaudiniopsis macra. The main vegetation types are also described.