Viola pyrenaica Ramond ex DCPyrenean Violet, DE: Pyrenen VeilchenSlo.: pirenejska vijolica Dat.: April 7. 2016Lat.: 46.36059 Long.: 13.70249Code: Bot_941/2016_DSC0789Picture file names: from Viola-pyrenaica_raw_30 to Viola-pyrenaica_raw_41.Habitat: grassland, pasture; moderately inclined mountain slope, south aspect; calcareous, colluvial, skeletal ground; mostly growing under developing leaves of Aconitum lycoctonum; dry, sunny, open place; exposed to direct rain; elevation 610 m (2.000 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, right bank of river Soa, Na Melu place, near Trenta 2b cottage, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comment: Viola pyrenaica is a beautiful, rare alpine violet. In Austria north of us it is considered rare to very rare (Ref.:3), it has not yet been found west of Slovenia in Friuli Venezia Guilia, Italy (Ref.:6) and at the beginning of this century it was known only from a single UTM 10 km sub-square in Slovenia (Ref.:7). Yet, during last decade several new finds have occurred. Still, each new find is a joyful event, particularly if it happens, so to say, in front of your own house.Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroenih rastlinskih in ivalskih vrst v rdei seznam, Uradni list RS, t. 82/2002 (Regulation of enlisting of endangered plant and animal species onto Red List, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 82/2002) (2002). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "R" representing a rare species.Ref.:(1) Personal communication with and identification Dr. Igor Dakskobler, Natural History Institute 'Jovan Hadi?, SAZU. (2) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 420. (3) M.A.Fischer, W.Adler, K.Oswald, Exkursionsflora Oesterreich Liechtenstein, Suedtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 433.(4) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 436.(5) K.Lauber and G.Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 398.(6) L. Poldini, Nuovo Atlante corologico delle piante vascolari nel Friuli Venezia Giulia, University of Trieste (2002), p 524.(7) N. Jogan, ed., Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia, Center za Kartografijo favne in flore (2001), p 410.
Viola pyrenaicaSlo.: pirenejska vijolica Dat.: April 6. 2013Lat.: 46.34501 Long.: 13.56603Code: Bot_695/2013_IMG2671 Habitat: South inclined mountain slope, mixed predominantly hard wood forest, dominant Ostrya carpinifolia, Fraxinus ornus, Fagus sylvatica, Corylus avellana, Picea abies, among Primula vulgaris, Helleborus niger, Hepatica nobilis, etc. warm and dry place, partly in shade; in transitions zone between calcareous well consolidated conglomerate layers and flysh bedrock, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 525 m (1.770 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: brown sandy forest soil.Place: Bovec basin, below Ravni Laz place, next to the trail to Bovec, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comment: This violet was in 2001 considered as a very rare species and known only from one sub-square of MTB grid in the whole state (Ref.:(5)). Today we know well above hundred observations. Usually these plants grow in small scattered groups. In this observation they grow in an unusually large and dense group of several hundred plants with quite high ground coverage. The largest number of these plants Ive ever seen. Endemic to southeast Alps. Protected according to 'Uredba o zavarovanih prosto iveih rastlinskih vrstah' Ur.l. RS, t. 46/2004. Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "R" representing a rare species.File names: from Viola-pyrenaica_raw_20.xxx to Viola-pyrenaica_raw_27.xxx.Ref.:(1) K.Lauber and G.Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 398.(2) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 420. (3) M.A.Fischer, W.Adler, K.Oswald, Exkursionsflora Oesterreich Liechtenstein, Suedtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 433.(4) Personal communication with dr. Igor Dakskobler, institute Jovan Hadi, Slovenian Academy of Arts and Science.(5) N. Jogan, ed., Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia, Center za Kartografijo favne in flore (2001), p 410.(6) I. Dakskobler and J. Peljhan, Viola Pyrenaica Ramond Ex DC in the Northern Part of the Dinaric Mountains (The Plateaus of Trnkovski gozd and Nanos), Hacquetia 6/2 (2007), pp 143-169Canon G11, 6.1-30mm/f2.8-4.5
