Poa cephalonica H. Scholz, Bot. Chron. (Patras
Year: 2026
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Abstract: 5.Poa cephalonicaH. Scholz, Bot. Chron. (Patras) 3 (1–2): 16, f. 1 a – b. 1983 b. Type. Greece • Ins. Kephallinia: mons Aenos, in apertis praeci Abietis cephalonicae, 1,300 m, 6 Jun 1969, D. Phitos 8763 (holotype: B [B 100508155]; isotype: UPA {n. v.}). Description. Culms 10–30 cm tall, densely tufted, arising from onion like bulbs, vegetative shoot bases bulbous. Ligules of basal leaves 0.2–0.5 mm long; ligules of culm leaves 1–2.5 mm long; leaf-blades up to 10 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, flat or folded. Panicles 5–8 (– 11) cm long, many-flowered, loose (open in anthesis); branches (3 –) 4–6 slender branches at lower nodes, sparsely scabrous. Glumes 3 - veined; lemmas 2.5–2.9 mm long, keel and marginal veins short ciliate; callus web sparse; palea keels scabrous. Flowers bisexual, sometimes bulbiferous; anthers 1.5 mm long. 2 n = 14. Clade code: unknown. Distribution and ecology. Greece. Northwestern Greece. Openings in mountain forests of Abies cephalonica Loudon, between 900–1,000 and 1,600 m elevation. Conservation status. Endemic, rare, needs further study. Scholz cited 12 collections. See also Scholz (1986). Strid in Dimopoulos et al. (2013) marked its presence in the Ionian Islands and Southern Pindos. Comments. Scholz (1991) cited 12 D. Phitos collections at UPA, with five duplicates at B (including the Type), all from Kephallinia. The Type was originally annotated by Scholz in 1971 as Poa hackelii Post. The short basal ligules are reminiscent of P. iconia, but the panicles differ in having several branches per node. It is clearly bulbous and certainly belongs in P. subg. Alpinae. However, we would like to know if the prophyll prickles are mostly antrorse (as in P. iconia) or bidirectional to mainly retrorse (as is common in P. bulbosa). Poa cephalonica collected by Strid (Strid 29829 US) has retrorse prickles. Four bulbiferous paratype vouchers were noted as “ f. vivipara ”, but the form was not provided with a separate Latin diagnosis or a Type, and RJS was not sure whether the few bulbiferous specimens he examined at B belonged to this species. Representative specimens. Greece. (Strid 29829 US).
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
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