New records for Albania based on taxa from the Prespa National Park Author Shuka, Lulezim Author Tan, Kit text Biodiversity Data Journal 2013 1 1014 1014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e1014 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e1014 1314-2828-1-1014 Helichrysum luteoalbum (L.) Rchb., 1929 Asteraceae Helichrysum luteoalbum (L.) Rchb., Handbuch der Gewaechskunde , 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! 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.