Pulmonaria obscura Dumort.

Raab-Straube, Eckhard von & Raus, Thomas, 2024, Euro + Med-Checklist Notulae, 17, Willdenowia 54 (1), pp. 5-45 : 12

Pulmonaria obscura Dumort.

+ Mk: North Macedonia: Southwest region, Mt Jablanica, forests above village of Lakaica, 21°20'24"N, 20°31'34"E, 1900 m, 17 Aug 1947, Kitanov (SOM 171 338), det. D. Dimitrov.

– No previous published records of this taxon from North Macedonia are known ( Valdes & Raab-Straube 2011 +). The cited specimen corroborates a comment by Matevski (2010: 116) on the possible occurrence of “ Pulmonaria officinalis var. obscura ” (= P. officinalis subsp. obscura (Dumort.) Murb. ) on Mt Skopska Črna Gora, however by not accepting that taxon as a member of the North Macedonian flora. It should be noted that the taxonomic opinion to regard P. officinalis L. and P. obscura as two independent species, based on Sauer (1975) and Bolliger (1982) and currently advocated by Euro+Med (2006+) and POWO (2023), has been recently disproved by phylogenetic analyses based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequences, making the resurrection of subspecies rank for the two taxa more appropriate ( Kirchner 2004: 103). D. Dimitrov & Th. Raus