Alyssum minutum explained

Alyssum minutum is a species of flowering plant in the genus Alyssum, family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe.

An annual herbaceous plant, typically reaching a size of 5–10cm, it grows on gravelly soil, rocky slopes and dry grassland.[1] It flowers from March until early summer.[2] Its chromosome number is 2n=16.

Distribution

The plant is found in scattered locations on the Iberian Peninsula (at elevations of 1000–2000m in the Baetic System and in the central and northwestern parts of the peninsula),[3] Italy (Sardinia, Sicily and Calabria),[4] Greece (throughout the mainland, Crete, Lesbos and some of the larger islands; at elevations of 500–1900m, rarely as low as sea level or as high as 2200m),[5] [6] in southern Albania, North Macedonia, southeastern Serbia,[4] Bulgaria (in the Upper Thracian Plain and the north-east),[7] in eastern Romania, northern Moldova, in Ukraine (especially in the Black Sea Lowland and in Crimea),[4] western and central Turkey, in Cyprus, West Syria,[8] Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco.[9] It was reported as present in the Caucasus by the 1939 Flora of USSR,[10] but this is not mentioned in the other sources cited here.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Stojanov, N.. Iglovrǎh – Alyssum L.. Flora na Narodna Republika Bǎlgarija. 4. 1970. Jordanov. D.. Kožuharov. S.. Sofia. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Bulgarian. 504.
  2. Spain: March–June ; Greece: (March–)April–June ; Bulgaria: March–June ; Turkey: March–July .
  3. Book: Küpfer. Ph.. Nieto Feliner. G.. Flora Iberica. 4. 1993. Alyssum L.. http://www.floraiberica.es/floraiberica/texto/pdfs/04_072_27_Alyssum.pdf. 180–2.
  4. Book: Jalas. J.. Suominen. J.. Lampinen. R.. 1996. Atlas Florae Europaeae. Distribution of Vascular Plants in Europe. 11. Cruciferae (Ricotia to Raphanus). The Committee for Mapping the Flora of Europe & Societas Biologica Fennica Vanamo. Helsinki. 951-9108-11-4. 32.
  5. Book: Hartvig, P.. Alyssum L.. Flora Hellenica. 2. 2002. Strid. Arne. Tan. Kit. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. 3904144928. 207.
  6. Book: Hartvig, P.. Strid. Arne. 1986. Mountain flora of Greece. 1. Alyssum L.. 284–5. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-25737-4.
  7. Book: Asyov. B.. Petrova. A.. Dimitrov. D.. Vassilev. R.. 2012. Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora : Distribution Maps and Floristic Elements. 4. Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation. Sofia. 63. 2021-12-27. 2021-10-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20211011110124/https://bbf.biodiversity.bg/New-4th-edition-of-Conspect-of-Bulgarian-flora.p969. dead. A much wider distribution for Bulgaria is given in .
  8. Book: Dudley. T.R.. Alyssum L.. Davis. P.H.. Flora of Turkey and the Eaast Aegean Islands. 1. 1965. Edinburgh University Press. 377–8.
  9. Web site: Marhold. K. 2011. Brassicaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. 26 December 2021.
  10. Book: Flora SSSR. 8. 1939. Izd. AN SSSR. Russian. 354.

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