Carex umbrosa Host subsp. umbrosa

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Carex umbrosa Host subsp. umbrosa

+ Mk: North Macedonia: Pelagonia region, Nidže Planina, Dobro Pole peak, 41.05056°N, 21.88349°E, 1100 m, 14 Jun 1916, Mrkvicka (SOM 10 401, 10 411), det. B. Davidov.

– Not previously recorded from North Macedonia, according to Jiménez-Mejías & Luceño (2011 +). The species is not mentioned in the published Reliquiae mrkvičkanae of Velenovský (1922: 22). The collector, Jan Mrkvicka, an officer in the Bulgarian army, was killed in World War I on 17 Aug 1916 near the Grazhden peak which is situated SW of the North Macedonian Dobro Pole peak. Mrkvicka was buried in the village of Gradeshnitsa eventually. He could certainly not have crossed enemy lines to collect this plant on Greek territory. However, C. umbrosa subsp. umbrosa is also known to occur directly S of the Greek-North Macedonian border, in a shallow depression known under the similar toponym of Dobro Polje (Kali Pediada), where it grows in swampy open meadows over micaceous schist, partly with Sphagnum mosses and stagnant water ( Strid 2006: 727). D. Dimitrov