The flora of the Kastellorizo island group (East Aegean Islands, Greece): new records and comments

doi:10.7320/flmedit23.069

Abstract

Highlights

The Kastellorizo island group (East Aegean Islands, Greece) forms a small archipelago consisting of three main islands, Megisti, Ro and Strongili, and several smaller islets mostly situated to the east of Megisti (Fig. 1)
The large islands are situated at only 2-3 km S or SW of the Turkish coast (Antalya vilayet), where Kaş is the closest large city
The islands of Megisti and Strongili were visited for the first time in April 2008, to collect information on some local or rare plants for the Red Data Book project (Phitos & al. 2009)

Summary

Introduction

The Kastellorizo island group (East Aegean Islands, Greece) forms a small archipelago consisting of three main islands, Megisti (or Kastellorizo), Ro and Strongili, and several smaller islets mostly situated to the east of Megisti (Fig. 1). Megisti, recorded under that name since at least the 3rd century B.C., is the largest island of the group, with a land surface of c. The smallest of the three main islands, has a land surface of c. That publication is the only floristic report on the area and still remains the basic source work on plant diversity of the islands. It includes 424 species from almost all islands and islets, with localities, habitats and relative frequency of taxa cited in detail. P. Davis 1999) who was involved in the study of a particular genus, Galanthus, and did not add any new records to the flora of the area

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