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Colchicum arenarium Waldst. et Kit.
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A regional endemic species of the Pannonian Basin located mainly in Hungary in sand and loess steppes between Tisa river and Danube. One isolated location is known from southern Slovenia and a few others in northern Serbia. Outside Pannonia this species occurs in three localities from Romania in the western part of the Valachian Plain.These localities are, according to dr. Adrian Oprea: 1. Lipovu, Dolj county, described by I. Serbanescu (1965) and mentioned again in Doltu M. I., Sanda V. & Popescu A. (1983) - Caracterizarea ecologica si fitocenotica a florei terenurilor nisipoase din Romania. Stud. Com., Muz. ati. Nat. Brukenthal, ser. Stiintele Naturii, 28: 87-151. 2. Moldova Veche island in the Danube, Caras-Severin county, described in Morariu I., Danciu M. & Ularu P. (1969) - Date noi din flora Portilor de Fier. Stud. cerc. Biol., Ser. Bot. 21(1): 17-22 + 3 fig.). This location was checked by Alexandru Badarau in september 2013 and the species was not found. Interestingly, despite the fact that on the island there is a great surface of sand dunes, the species was mentioned in the above cited article as growing not in arenicole grasslands but in the xeric patches of grasslands with Chrysopogon gryllus from the monticle in the eastern part of the island, on rocky and loess substratum. 3. Desa-Nebuna, Dolj county, to the SSE, near Popii Lake close to the Danube shore according to Dihoru Gh. & Negrean G. (2009) - Cartea rosie a plantelor vasculare din Romania. Bucuresti: Edit. Acad. Romane. Lipovu in the Oltenia Plain, Dolj county, imeadiately to the east from the village on the upper part of Desnatui river terrace, 27th and 28th of September 2013. Here the species does not grow on sands but on loess steppes. dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net Andreea-Evelin Konyves, anda_evelin@yahoo.com
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