Alkanna orientalis
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https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.55.10 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F3617D5F-A869-FFB4-FF30-FD6EFD07FB0F |
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Felipe |
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Alkanna orientalis |
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Alkanna orientalis View in CoL (L.) Boiss.
A Cm: Crimea: Yalta Raion, outskirts of Vidradne village, 44.50416°N, 34.23104°E, 13 m, two plants in bushes on slope above Black Sea coast, on dry degraded soil, 11 May 2012, Levon (photos: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192364733). – This is the first recorded occurrence of the species in Crimea. It is native to the Mediterranean and W Asia, occasionally cultivated as an ornamental plant in W and S Europe ( Huber-Morath 1978; Richardson 2011). The species is cultivated in the M. M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv ( Rakhmetov & al. 2020). The means of migration of A. orientalis into the natural habitat cited above is unknown, but not far from there is the Nikita Botanical Garden, which is assumed to be the place of origin. We therefore consider A. orientalis to be a casual escape from cultivation in Crimea (ergasiophygophyte sec. Ponert 1977).
O. Shynder & A. Levon
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