Helianthemum jonium (Cistaceae), nova vrsta u istočnom Jadranu

Authors and affiliation

• Sandro Bogdanović University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Botany, Svetošimunska 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Draško Holcer Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Nataša Janev Holcer Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Rockefellerova 7, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Lulëzim Shuka Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Tirana University, Bld. ZOG I, Tirana, Albania

Abstract

The occurrence of Helianthemum jonium Lacaita & Grosser ex Bég. in Fiori & Bég. (Cistacaeae) is reported and documented here for the first time in Croatia and Montenegro, and it is confirmed in the Albanian flora after 80 years. The species grows on sandy soils within maquis and garrigue communities in four Adriatic islands: Vis, Biševo, Hvar and Lopud, and within psammophilous vegetation near Ulcinj in Montenegro and in Hamallaj, north of Durrës in Albania. The morphological relationship with the allied H. leptophyllum Dunal and H. apenninum (L.) Mill. is here briefly discussed. Remarks about its taxonomy, lectotypification, habitat and ecology in the Adriatic region are also provided. The species H. jonium was previously known only from the Apennine Peninsula; hence these new eastern Adriatic records extend its distribution area to the east, and it can therefore be considered an amphi-Adriatic endemic element.

Keywords

amphi-Adriatic, endemic species, flora, Helianthemum, lectotypification

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