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Achillea thracica Velen.
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A very rare steppe xeric loess species endemic to Dobrudja and Tracia, in Bulgaria and Romania (seemingly encountered in only three localities, one of them near Cobadin, Constanta county, Romania being probably lost and was last seen in the XIXth century). The single small locality from Romania known nowadays is located in a steppe grassland area along the west shores of Lake Techirghiol (dr. Marius Fagaras, 2007). Pictures from outside Romania, in Bulgaria in the unique locality there near Plovdiv. dr. Boris Assyov, bassyoff@hotmail.com
The synonymation of Achillea thracica Velenovsky (Thracia, Bulgaria) and Achillea millefoliata Grecescu (Dobrogea, Romania) is based only on the characters of the surface of the leaves (glabrous, somehow lustrous and with glandular punctuations). However the iconic phragments representing this species from Cobadin (Constanta county, Romania) in Flora Reipublicae Popularis Romanicae vol. 9 (see below) seem to represent a quite different plant. Therefore we rise here a question mark in regarding this problem.
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