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Crocus banaticus Gay

 

 

Flora Europaea

perennial, G, 2n=26, diploid

mesic, from the lower nemoral up to the boreal belt

Dacian (present also in the Serbian Banat) and in the Ukrainean Carpathians -meaning almost endemic to the mountains and the surrounding hills from the territory of Romania)

Symphito-Fagion, Carpinion, Aremonio-Carpinenion, Arrhenatheretalia (secondary mountain grasslands from the upper nemoral)

R 38s, R41s, R42a (rare)

 

 

 

 

 

A very beautiful serotinal saffron species from Crocus genus which is almost endemic to Romania (especially Transylvania and Banat / rare in all the other regions)

North of Podeni, Cluj county, rich populations around the point 46 26 21 06 N / 23 39 09 09 E, october 2009

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Raicani, Alba county, west of Piatra Cetii calcareous massif, Alba county, September 2005.

dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net

The photographs below provide a comparison between Crocus banaticus and Colchicum autumnale the two serotinal saffrons which flower in the autumn approximately in the same period and sometimes are mistaken one for the other though are included in two different botanical families.

 

 

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