Lomelosia brachiata (Sm.) Greuter & Burdet

Raab-Straube, Eckhard von & Raus, Thomas, 2022, Euro + Med-Checklist Notulae, 15, Willdenowia 52 (2), pp. 273-299 : 281

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https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.52.52205

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scientific name

Lomelosia brachiata (Sm.) Greuter & Burdet
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Lomelosia brachiata (Sm.) Greuter & Burdet View in CoL (≡ Knautia palaestina L. ≡ Scabiosa brachiata Sm. Tremastelma palaestinum (L.) Janch. [non S. palaestina L. ≡ L. palaestina (L.) Raf.]) – Fig. 4A, B.

+ Cm: Crimea: Sevastopol, N slope of Mount Sapun, 10 Jun 1981, Usacheva & Kosykh (YALT, as Scabiosa micrantha Desf. ); ibid., near Flotskoye (Qaran) village, 44°31'01.85''N, 33°33'28.73''E, 200 m, rocky slope, 21 Jun 2013, Svirin (photo); ibid., antique ruins on the way from the 5 th km to Berman ravine, 44°31'35.79''N, 33°31'04.01''E, 187 m, wasteland above the spring, 31 May 2017, Svirin (MW 0632716); ibid., surroundings of Balaclava, above the road to Flotskoye village, 44°30'54.18''N, 33°33'20.07''E, 185 m, 2 Jun 2017, Svirin (MW 0632717); ibid., surroundings of Flotskoye, Gornaya height, 44°30'54''N, 33°33'20''E, 200 m, rocky steppe slope, 15 Jun 2017, Ryff & Svirin (YALT); ibid., near Berman ravine, 44°31'22.4''N, 33°31'14''E, 185 m, dry grasslands in Pinus nigra subsp. pallasiana (D. Don) Holmboe plantation, 15 Jun 2017, Ryff & Svirin (YALT). – This is a first record for E Europe. Lomelosia brachiata is common in Greece, it is also found in other areas of the Balkan Peninsula, S Italy, Cyprus and W Turkey ( GBIF 2021d; POWO 2022f). For N Italy it is given as alien (Portale della Flora d’Italia 2022). Information about records in other regions needs to be verified. Based on results of phylogenetic studies (Avino & al. 2009; Carlson & al. 2009), this species can be accommodated in a separate genus, Tremastelma Raf. This taxonomic solution has been adopted by some researchers ( Tutin & al. 1976; Verlaque 1977, 1986; Plantarium 2007 –2022), but was superseded by Greuter & al. (1986), Mayer & Ehrendorfer (2013), Domina (2017 +) and POWO (2022f). The first known herbarium collections of L. brachiata from the surroundings of Sevastopol date back to 1981, but initially they were misidentified as Scabiosa micrantha and kept in YALT under this name. In 2013, one of us (S.S.) found a new locality of L. brachiata near Flotskoye village, but only after the photos were posted on the Plantarium (2007 –2022) website in 2017 was the taxon correctly identified by Andriy Kovalchuk. In Crimea, it grows mainly in calciphilous Mediterranean steppes of the class Stipo-Trachynietea distachyae S. Brullo (see Mucina & al. 2016, Appendix 1: 112). These communities are dominated by Aegilops biuncialis Vis. , Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P. Beauv., Helianthemum salicifolium (L.) Mill. and other annuals, as well as some steppe perennials including Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn., Convolvulus cantabrica L. and C. holosericeus M. Bieb. In SW Crimea, L. brachiata occurs exclusively in natural and seminatural habitats similar to natural dry grasslands of the E Mediterranean. However, in Crimea, this species is most likely an archaeophyte, introduced to the vicinity of the ancient Greek colony of Chersonesus, near present-day Sevastopol, by the Greeks either already in antiquity or during the medieval Byzantine Empire. L. E. Ryff & S. A. Svirin

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