home   flora of romania  endangered species of transylvania  endangered habitats of transylvania

Picris hieracioides L. ssp. longifoliata (Nyar.) comb. nova prov.

Flora Europaea           This taxon was described as a form in Savulescu T. (coord.,1964) Flora Reipublicae Popularis Romanicae 9, Ed. Acad. RPR, Bucuresti pp. 69, 71 from Baile Herculane, Caras-Severin county and Pietrele Chalet in Retezat Mountains, Hunedoara county. The set of photographs below was made in Lotrului Mountains near Voineasa, Valcea county and the populations from the western higher part of the Meridional Carpathians seem to be uniform, with constant characters. Other three Central European subspecies with broadly overlapping ranges are recognized recently in the flora of Romania books. Voineasa, Lotrului Mountains, Valcea county, July 2007. Dan Turtureanu, PhD student, turtureanudan@gmail.com