Gagea-pusilla_750-500_11

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Gagea pusillaDwarf Star-of-Bethlehem (?), Zwerg-GelbsternSlo.: pritlikava pasja ebulicaDat.: March 11. 2011Lat.: 45.83121 Long.: 13.77418Code: Bot_493/2011_IMG3894Habitat: dry Karst grassland still mowed and occasionally grassed by horses, Carici humilis-Centaureetum rupestris, near wood side, also in dense bushes (Cotinus coggygria, Prunus mahaleb, Fraximus ornus, Juniperrs communis, Rubus sp.), flat terrain, sunny (unless in bushes, then half sunny until leaves develop, after that in full shade), calcareous ground, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations 1.400-1.500 mm/year, average temperature 11-13 deg C, elevation 290 m (950 feet), submediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Place: About 500 m NNE of village Mali dol, Komen Karst region, Primorska, Slovenia EC Comment: Apparently it has not been documented in Slovenia during last 30 years. The socond find in 10148/4 (UTM 33TVL07). Will be proposed to be enlisted in Slovenian Red List of protected and rare plants. For details see: A. Trnkoczy, L.Poldini, B. Dolinar, I.Dakskobler, Gagea pusilla (F.W. Schmidt) Schult. & Schult. fil., New locality of a rare and vulnerable species on the Karst, Hladnikia, Vol.27, Botanical Society of Slovenia (2011), p75). Ref.:(1) Personal communication dr. Igor Dakskobler. (2) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 748. (3) M.A.Fischer, W.Adler, K.Oswald, Exkursionsflora Oesterreich Liechtenstein, Suedtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1019. (4) N. Jogan, ed., Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia, Center za kartografijo favne in flore (2001), p167.