Mollugo verticillata

Raab-Straube, Eckhard von & Raus, Thomas, 2022, Euro + Med-Checklist Notulae, 15, Willdenowia 52 (2), pp. 273-299 : 286

Mollugo verticillata L. – Fig. 8.

A Gr: Greece: Central Macedonia, Nomos of Serres: Strymonas river, S of the village of Vyronia, 41°15'12.87''N, 23°14'09.74''E, 37 m, on sandy temporary islets in the riverbed created by the water-level drop in summer, 12 Sep 2020, Giannakis (TAUF); ibid., 2 Oct 2020, Giannakis (TAUF); ibid., 21 Aug 2021, Giannakis (TAUF). – Mollugo verticillata is an annual species, considered native to the American tropics, from where it spread as naturalized to the temperate regions of North America, although there is evidence supporting its presence in temperate E North America 2500–3000 years ago ( Boetsch 2002; Chapman & al. 1974). Nowadays, its global distribution also includes SW Europe, tropical W Africa, E Asia ( China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan) and E Australia (Vincent 2003; Uotila 2011 +; Hassler 2018), as well as Bulgaria, where only two specimens were found ( Kunev 2019). It has not previously been recorded from Greece ( Dimopoulos & al. 2013, 2016, 2020). The small population in Greece, numbering 500+ individuals, was found c. 20 km south of the nearest Bulgarian locality. Th. Giannakis, S. Tsiftsis, E. Eleftheriadou & K. Theodoropoulos