A hotspot of endemism: Oreophytic Taraxacum species (Compositae, Crepidinae) in the mountains of Bulgaria
Author
Štěpánek, Jan
0000-0003-4038-1998
Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ- 25243 Průhonice 1, Czech Republic. & jan. stepanek @ ibot. cas. cz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4038 - 1998
jan.stepanek@ibot.cas.cz
Author
Kirschner, Jan
0000-0002-6303-713X
Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ- 25243 Průhonice 1, Czech Republic. & jan. kirschner @ ibot. cas. cz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6303 - 713 X
jan.kirschner@ibot.cas.cz
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Phytotaxa
2022
2022-10-20
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1
1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.569.1.1
journal article
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Taraxacum pseudofontanum
van Soest (1959: 94)
Type:—
L 2628
, no. det. 19696,
holotype
(herb.
van Soest
33797)!, see also
Kirschner & Štěpánek (2014: 175)
.
Doll (1978: 641)
:—“Diese Art fanden wir mehrfach am Fusse des Musalla sowie bei der Malowitza-Hütte in Weiden, Wiesen und an Bächen“.
Herbarium voucher specimens:—There are three herbarium sheets determined as
T. pseudofontanum
by
R
. Doll. Sheet
I
: Flora von
Bulgarien
, Rila-Gebirge, Musalla-Hütte. 12 Jul [19]76,
R
. Doll
[as
Taraxacum pseudofontanum
] (
JE
, no. det. 19264); three plants in flower, two of them belonging to
T. vile
. Sheet II: Flora von
Bulgarien
, Rila-Gebirge, Malowitza-Hütte. 16 Jul [19]76,
R
. Doll
(
JE
, no. det. 19265), originally determined as
T. pseudofontanum vel
T. parsennense
; three leaf rosettes, mostly with achenes. They belong to
T
.
sect.
Crocea
. Sheet III: Flora von
Bulgarien
, Rila-Gebirge, Musalla-Hütte. 12. 7. [19]76.,
R
. Doll
[as
Taraxacum pseudofontanum
] (
JE
, no. det. 19516). Sheet III contains a single plant with an empty scape and an envelope with achenes; the material is not in a condition to be evaluated.
Interpretation:—All the plants we were able to interpret belong to
T
.
sect.
Crocea
; one of them can be assigned to
T. vile
, a species described below. None of the specimens is close to
T. pseudofontanum
of the Alps.