Phytologia Balcanica 31: 57-64, doi: 10.3897/phytolbalcan.31.e161685
The genus Gonocytisus (Fabaceae) in Greece
Kit Tan‡, Kostas Giannopoulos§, Naim Berisha|‡ University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark§ Unaffiliated, Pyrgos, Ilias, Greece| University of Prishtina, Department of Biology, Prishtina, Kosovo
Corresponding author: Kit Tan ( kitt@bio.ku.dk ) Academic editor: Vladimir Vladimirov © Kit Tan, Kostas Giannopoulos, Naim Berisha. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Tan K, Giannopoulos K, Berisha N (2025) The genus Gonocytisus (Fabaceae) in Greece. Phytologia Balcanica 31: 57-64. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytolbalcan.31.e161685 |  |
Abstract
Gonocytisus dirmilensis (Fabaceae) was originally described from SW Anatolia, Turkey. It occurs disjunct in south and south-central Greece where it is the sole representative of its genus. The Greek plants from south-central Greece were recently named G. graecus. Principal component analysis (PCA) reveals that the morphological variation between G. dirmilensis and G. graecus is limited and there is no justification in treating the Greek populations as a separate species. Gonocytisus graecus is thus relegated to synonymy of G. dirmilensis. A description of the species in Greece, its ecology and distribution together with a map of total distribution are provided.
Keywords
Gonocytisus, Greece, distribution, taxonomy, Turkey