identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
DC35A539FF849943FF4DF99C6CCCFA03.text	DC35A539FF849943FF4DF99C6CCCFA03.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Hieracium richianum Szelag 2020	<div><p>Hieracium richianum Szeląg,  sp. nov. (Figs. 1−2)</p><p>Type: ―   ROMANIA.  Eastern Carpathians, Ciucaş Mts., Mt. Muntele Roşu, grassy slope with  Rhododendron kotschyi and  Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, 1740 m a.s.l., 25 July 2015, Z. Szeląg (holotype KRAM ;  isotypes CL,  Herb. Hierac. Z. Szeląg).</p><p>Description: ―Phyllopodous. Stem robust, monocephalous or bicephalous, up to 30 cm high; in the lower third with numerous, pale, 2–3 mm long simple hairs and scattered stellate hairs; in the middle part with sparse, pale, 2–3 mm long simple hairs and numerous stellate hairs. Peduncles with quite numerous, pale, dark-based, 1–2 mm long simple hairs, numerous stellate hairs and sparse, black, 0.2–0.6 mm long glandular hairs. Synflorescence branch (if present) monocephalous, up to 8 cm long, in axil of uppermost cauline leaf. Rosette leaves 6–10, up to 12 cm long and up to 3 cm wide, lanceolate or oblanceolate, tapered to a long, winged petiole, remotely, sharply denticulate; the outer rosette leaves obtuse at apex (often withering at anthesis), the inner rosette leaves subacute at apex; on both surfaces with scattered, pale, 0.5–2 mm long simple hairs, and a few stellate hairs especially along a midrib; on the margins with numerous, pale simple hairs up to 2 mm long, mixed with sparse yellowish glandular hairs and a few stellate hairs. Cauline leaves 4–6, sessile, ±semi-amplexicaul, gradually reduced in size upwards, lanceolate, acute at apex, sharply, irregular dentate, with a protruding white midrib; lower cauline leaves similar in shape and indumentum to inner rosette leaves; uppermost cauline leaves linear, bract-like, covered by dense, pale, simple hairs up to 2 mm long mixed with sparse microglands and stellate hairs. Involucres 12–14 mm long, globose at base, covered by quite dense indumentum. Involucral bracts in three rows; the outer bracts squarrose (visible in living plants) (Fig. 2); lanceolate, obtuse at apex, dark green, with subdense, pale, dark-based simple hairs 2.5–4.0 mm long, and scattered to numerous, dark-based, yellowish, 0.2–0.4 mm long glandular hairs. Ligules flat; outer up to 15–18 mm long, yellow, glabrous at apex. Styles yellow with dense, black microtrichomes. Achenes almost black, 3.7–4.0 mm long. Pappus pale-grey. Pollen in anthers few, spherical and of varying size. Flowering: end of July and beginning of August.</p><p>Affinity: ―  Hieracium richianum is similar to  H. slovacum Chrtek in Chrtek &amp; Marhold (1998: 203) from the Western Carpathians but differs in its (1) shorter involucres, (2) less dense and shorter indumentum of the peduncles, (3) broader and in part obtuse at apex rosette leaves, (4) shorter and completely pale simple hairs on the stem, and (5) ligules glabrous at apex. The morphological differences between both species are stable in garden-cultivated plants.</p><p>Distribution and habitats: ―Endemic to the Ciucaş Mountains in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania. The populations of  H. richianum comprised tens of plants spread along a tourist path from the Muntele Roşu hut to Mt. Gropoşoarele, at 1670−1750 m a.s.l. They were growing in subalpine grasslands amongst  Rhododendron kotschyi and  Juniperus alpina thickets, and on south-facing slope with  Bruckenthalia spiculifolia .</p><p>Chromosome number and mode of reproduction: —2n = 4x = 36, agamospermous (Musiał et al. 2018: 77, as  Hieracium fritzei agg.).</p><p>Etymology: —The new species is named in honour of Dr. Tim Rich, Cardiff, an expert of the genus  Hieracium Linnaeus (1753: 799), and co-author of valued monographs on the British  Hieracia (Tennant &amp; Rich 2008; Rich &amp; Scott 2011; McCosh &amp; Rich 2018).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DC35A539FF849943FF4DF99C6CCCFA03	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Szeląg, Zbigniew	Szeląg, Zbigniew (2020): Hieracium richianum (Asteraceae), a new species of H. sect. Alpina from the Eastern Carpathians in Romania. Phytotaxa 436 (1): 93-96, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.436.1.11, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.436.1.11
