A new winter-flowering species of Colchicum from Greece

Dionyssios Vassiliades 1 & Karin Persson 2

Affiliations

  1. 24 Issiodou Street, GR-10674 Athens, Greece
  2. Botanical Institute, Göteborg University, Box 461, SE-40530 Göteborg, Sweden
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Abstract

A new species, Colchicum asteranthum Vassil. et K. Perss. (Colchicaceae), endemic to the Peloponnese in Greece, is described. It is a small winter-flowering plant with synanthous leaves and soboliferous corms, the latter a rare feature in the genus. The species has no obvious relations, but it shows some affinity to the S Turkish endemic C. minutum K. Perss.

Keywords

Colchicum, Colchicaceae, Greece, Peloponnese, soboliferous corms, synanthous

How to cite

Vassiliades D. & Persson K. (2002) A new winter-flowering species of Colchicum from Greece. – Preslia 74: 57–65