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Saponaria bellidifolia Sm.

Flora Europaea perennial, H submediterranean saxicole calciphile Seslerio - Festucion pallentis, Seslerion rigidae             A species which has its main range in the Balkans (and not yet found in Anatolia). Isolated populations are scattered in Italy, Spain and southern France. A group of small isolated populations are placed in northern Trascau Mountains (Piatra Urdasului) and in southerh Muntele Mare massif (Scarita-Belioara mountain and the gorges around). Here it occurs exclusively on massif limestones. Other locations from Mehedinti and Cerna Mountains are doubtful. Data in regarding the Romanian populations can be seen here (population dynamics), here (habitat structure) and here (RAPD revealed genetic variability and genetic isolation degree (through AFLP) of the Romanian populations compared with the ones from other regions of the species range). Scarita - Belioara calcareous massif, Muntele Mare Mountains, Alba county, June 2010. dr. Anna Maria Csergo, kankalinka@yahoo.com