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Ornithogalum orthophyllum Ten. ssp. kochii (Parl.) Zahar.

Flora Europaea

perennial, G, 2n=14 or 18, diploid (reports from other different subspecies and varieties)

xeric to xeromesophyle in various types of grasslands

Festucion rupicolae but also Cirsio-Brachypodion

especially within R3414, R3415, R3501 habitats

A species with a wide range in western Palearctis with a lot of local and regional isolated endemic subspecies. Hard to distinguish it from Ornithogalum umbellatum L. and Ornithogalum divergens Boreau which both have bulbiles around the main bulb. This subspecies is the one with the largest range.

North of Cojocna, Cluj county, on the steep sunny cuestal front of Beleni Hill, 20th of April 2012.

dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net

The photographs below are to provide a comparison with the leaf section of this common subspecies with the narrow endemjc Ornithogalum orthophyllum ssp. acuminatum.

Cheile Valisoarei natural reservation area, Trascau Mountains, Alba county, 23rd of May 2010.

dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net

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Ornithogalum orthophyllum Ten. ssp. kochii (Parl.) Zahar.

A species with a wide range in western Palearctis with a lot of local and regional isolated endemic subspecies. Hard to distinguish it from Ornithogalum umbellatum L. and Ornithogalum divergens Boreau which both have bulbiles around the main bulb. This subspecies is the one with the largest range.