Gagea-pusilla_5

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Gagea pusillaDwarf Star-of-Bethlehem (?), Zwerg-GelbsternSlo.: pritlikava pasja ebulicaDat.: March 05. 2011Lat.: 45.83047 Long.: 13.77476Code: Bot_490/2011_IMG3773 Habitat: at the side of an overgrown card road, dry Karst grassland, wood side, flat terrain, partly sunny, 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) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 748. (2) M.A.Fischer, W.Adler, K.Oswald, Exkursionsflora Oesterreich Liechtenstein, Suedtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1019. (3) N. Jogan, ed., Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia, Center za kartografijo favne in flore (2001), p167.