Helichrysum luteoalbum (L.) Rchb., 1929

Shuka, Lulezim & Tan, Kit, 2013, New records for Albania based on taxa from the Prespa National Park, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 1014-1014 : 1014

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scientific name

Helichrysum luteoalbum (L.) Rchb., 1929
status

 

Helichrysum luteoalbum (L.) Rchb., 1929

Asteraceae

Helichrysum luteoalbum (L.) Rchb., Handbuch der Gewächskunde, ed. 2, 2:1460 (1829). Fig. 6

Helichrysum luteoalbum Basionym: Gnaphalium luteoalbum L., Sp. Pl. 2:851 (1753). Lectotype designated by Hilliard & Burtt in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 82:206, 244 (1981):― Herb. A. van Royen no. 900.286-294 (L, digital specimen image!).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 6466; recordedBy: Shuka; Location: country: Albania; verbatimLocality: Lake shore of Megali Prespa, from the old church of Zaroshka village up to near the Greek border; verbatimElevation: 850 m; verbatimLatitude: 40°46'N; verbatimLongitude: 20°56'E; Event: eventDate: 16 July 2012; Record Level: institutionCode: TIR! GoogleMaps

Ecology

Phenology

Flowering in June and July.

Habitat

Sandy and stony calcareous shore, 3-4 m above the lake. The sparse vegetation includes Calamintha nepeta , Crepis spp., Euphorbia falcata , Potentilla supina and Sonchus spp., and is often submerged when the water level rises. ― New for Albania.

Distribution

Widely distributed cosmopolitan weed, naturalized in New World. Recorded in almost every country in southern Europe but not yet for Albania.