Saponaria aenesia
Island distribution (first record)
Othonoi
Ereikoussa
Mathraki
Corfu
Paxos
Antipaxos
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherLefkada (Gutermann & al. 2014 as S. aenesia)
Meganisi
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherKalamos (Gutermann & al. 2014 as S. sp. intermediate betweeen S. aenesia and S. calabrica)
Kastos
Atokos
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherIthaka (Kehm 1996 as S. aenesia)
Echinades
!! !! ... approved by herbarium voucherCephalonia (Heldreich 1876 as S. aenesia)
Zakynthos
Strofades
Annotation: The description of Saponaria aenesia was based on material from Cephalonia (Heldreich 1876: 238), the type specimen was collected in the summit area of Mt. Enos (»in regione abietina«). Its chromosome number 2n = 28 was determined on plants from this region (Samaropoulou & al. 2013a: 216). In »Flora Hellenica« the species is considered to be endemic to that region (Phitos in Strid & Tan 1997), however, more or less identical populations are also found on Ithaca and Lefkada. On the latter island, moreover, populations were observed which are morphologically intermediate to S. calabrica. The Kalamos populations of S. aenesia approach such intermediates (Gutermann & al. 2014). [2016-07-15]
Taxonomic references ("taxonyms")
linked to standard floras (PFB, FE, FE2, FH) and annotated checklists (AFE, VPG) giving direct reference to occurrences of plant taxa on the Ionian Islands:
PFB: | Saponaria calabrica var. aenesia |
FE: | Saponaria calabrica (p. p.) |
FE2: | Saponaria calabrica (p. p.) |
AFE: | Saponaria calabrica (p. p.) |
FH: | Saponaria aenesia |
VPG: | Saponaria aenesia |