Polygonatum hirtum (Poir.) Pursh

Doumas, Panayiotis, Goula, Katerina & Constantinidis, Theophanis, 2022, Thirty-two new and noteworthy floristic records from north-eastern Greece, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 81817-81817 : 81817

Polygonatum hirtum (Poir.) Pursh

Polygonatum hirtum (Poir.) Pursh in Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 234 (1813)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: P. Doumas; Taxon : scientificName: Polygonatum hirtum; family: Convallariaceae ; genus: Polygonatum ; specificEpithet: hirtum; taxonRank: species; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Greece; stateProvince: Nomos Xanthis; verbatimLocality: Mt. Achladovouno, the north-eastern slopes; verbatimElevation: 606 m; verbatimLatitude: 41°11′; verbatimLongitude: 24°48′; Identification: identifiedBy: P. Doumas & K. Goula; Event: eventDate: 16 May 2021; habitat: deciduous forest with Carpinus orientalis, limestone; Record Level: collectionID: 25; institutionCode: ATHU; basisOfRecord: Specimen

Taxon discussion

An uncommon and local species in Greece, recorded from the floristic regions of North Central (NC) and North East (NE; Dimopoulos et al. 2013). This new locality on Mt. Achladovouno is probably the easternmost known so far. Other Polygonatum hirtum collections from NE include the Nomos of Chalkidiki (a.n. 1390619 LD), Serres (a.n. 10 0234511, 10 0234512 B) and Kilkis (a.n. 1324835 LD, JACQ-ID 825194, B).