Notes on two new Allium species for Greece: A. kofinae from South Central and A. albanicum from Northwest and North Central Greece

Phytologia Balcanica 31: 103-108, doi: 10.3897/phytolbalcan.31.e169789

Notes on two new Allium species for Greece: A. kofinae from South Central and A. albanicum from Northwest and North Central Greece

Kit Tan^‡, Arne Strid^§

‡ University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark§ Unaffiliated, Ørbæk, Denmark

Corresponding author: Kit Tan ( kitt@bio.ku.dk )

Academic editor: Vladimir Vladimirov

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Citation: Tan K, Strid A (2025) Notes on two new Allium species for Greece: A. kofinae from South Central and A. albanicum from Northwest and North Central Greece. Phytologia Balcanica 31: 103-108. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytolbalcan.31.e169789

Abstract

Allium kofinae from Sterea Ellas (South Central Greece) is described and illustrated as a species new to science. It belongs to Allium sect. Pseudoscorodon of subgen. Allium and is closely related to three other members of this group, viz., A. meteoricum, A. lagarophyllum and A. albanicum by virtue of its spathe features, inflorescence and floral parts. It is a Greek endemic restricted to stony or rocky serpentine slopes in nomos Fthiotidos where it exists in moderately large populations. Allium albanicum is a recently described taxon from Albania which had been confused with A. meteoricum. It is now reported as new for Greece, occurring on the serpentine massifs of Smolikas and Vasilitsa (N Pindos in northwest Greece) and Vourinos (in N Central Greece). Allium meteoricum is considered a Greek endemic described from the sandstone area of the Meteora monasteries in S Pindos. The discovery of A. arampatzisii in the southern foothills of Mt Olimbos (N Central Greece) extends its previously known occurrence in nomos Kilkis (NE Greece) ca. 120 km southwards.

Keywords

Allium, Albania, Greece, new species, new records, taxonomy