Phytologia Balcanica 31: 87-94, doi: 10.3897/phytolbalcan.31.e161723
Podocytisus caramanicus (Fabaceae) in the Balkan Peninsula: distribution, habitat and taxonomic notes
Kit Tan‡, Naim Berisha§, Vlado Matevski|, Lulëzim Shuka¶, Jerzy Zieliński#‡ University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark§ University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo| Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia¶ Tirana University, Department of Biology, Tirana, Albania# Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology, Poznan, Poland
Corresponding author: Kit Tan ( kitt@bio.ku.dk ) Academic editor: Vladimir Vladimirov © Kit Tan, Naim Berisha, Vlado Matevski, Lulëzim Shuka, Jerzy Zieliński. 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, Berisha N, Matevski V, Shuka L, Zieliński J (2025) Podocytisus caramanicus (Fabaceae) in the Balkan Peninsula: distribution, habitat and taxonomic notes. Phytologia Balcanica 31: 87-94. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytolbalcan.31.e161723 |  |
Abstract
Podocytisus caramanicus (Fabaceae) is disjunct in southern Anatolia (Turkey) and the Balkan Peninsula, areas representing the entire distribution of the species. It is lectotypified for the first time. A description of the species within its geographical range, and its distribution in the Balkan Peninsula are presented. Habitat, altitudinal and substrate preferences are outlined for each country based on field observations, herbarium and literature data. Recent evaluation by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) confirms that the Anatolian plants and the Balkan plants belong to the same species, a situation paralleling that of Gonocytisus dirmilensis (Fabaceae), which has a similar disjunct distribution in SW Anatolia and Greece.
Keywords
Balkan Peninsula, distribution, Podocytisus, taxonomy