Abstract
Two new localities of <em>Orobanche mayeri </em>(Suess. &amp; Ronniger) Bertsch &amp; F. Bertsch, one of the rarest representatives of the family Orobanchaceae in Europe, are reported from southern Poland. The species was recorded in the Pieniny Mts (Central Western Carpathians) in July 2009. The hosts, abundance and habitat preferences at the new localities are described and a supplemented map of the distribution in Europe and Poland is given.
Highlights
Orobanche mayeri (Suess. & Ronniger) Bertsch & F
Mayer’s broomrape, is one of the rarest representatives of the family Orobanchaceae in Europe. It was known only from single localities in Germany, Slovakia and Romania prior to this report. It is red-listed as a threatened species in Baden-Württemberg [1] and Germany: [2], as a highly endangered of extinction [3], as well as in Slovakia [4]
The species was discovered by the botanist and pharmacists Adolf Mayer (1871-1952) from Germany in Zeller Horn in the Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg in 1940 and incorrectly determined as O. elatior. It was later revised by Süssenguth and Ronniger [7] and identified as O. alsatica var. mayeri
Summary
Mayer’s broomrape, is one of the rarest representatives of the family Orobanchaceae in Europe. It was known only from single localities in Germany, Slovakia and Romania prior to this report. The species was discovered by the botanist and pharmacists Adolf Mayer (1871-1952) from Germany in Zeller Horn in the Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg in 1940 and incorrectly determined as O. elatior. It was later revised by Süssenguth and Ronniger [7] and identified as O. alsatica var. It was later recorded at over ten localities in the Slovakian Carpathians in the 1990s [4]
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