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Serapias cordigera

Heart-flowered Serapias

CR.: srcolika kukavica

 

Dat.: May 26. 2012

Lat.: 44.70000 Long.: 13.92000

Code: Bot_923/2012_DSC3787

 

Habitat: dry grassland, among bushes, flat terrain, full sun, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations 800-900 mm/year, average temperature 13-14 deg C, elevation 30 m (100 feet), sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region.

 

Substratum: soil.

 

Place: Cap Kamenjak, Premantura, Istria, Croatia

 

Comment: Growing in a group of about 10 plants. A rare fund on Cap Kamenjak. Given coordinates are not precise.

 

Protected species according to ‘Zakon o zaštiti prirode (»Narodne novine«, broj 70/05 i 139/08)’ of Croatia and ‘Pravilnik o proglašavanju divjih svojti zaštićenim in strogo zaštićenim.’

 

Ref.:

(1) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) in Croat language, Školska knjiga (1993) p 464.

(2) H.Baumann, S. Kuenkele, R.Lorenz, Orchideen Europas, Ulmer (2006), p 273.

(3) V. Hršak, S. Brana, Z. Sedlar, I. Pejić, Morphometric and molecular (RAPD) analysis of six Serapias taxa from Croatia, Springer (2011), Biologia, Vol.66, no.1, pp 55-63.

(4) N.Vuković. S.Brana, B. Mitić, Orchid diversity of the Kamenjak (Istria, Croatia), (2011), Acta Bot. Croat, vol. 70, no. 1., pp 23-40.

(5) Prof. V Hršak, University of Zagreb, Department of Botany, personal communication (2012).

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