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Type: Article
Published: 2012-08-08
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Tulipa kosovarica (Liliaceae), a new species of tulip from Kosovo

Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Tirana University, Bld. ZOG I, Albania
Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 2D, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Pristina University, Mother Theresa str., Kosovo
Balkan Peninsula serpentine substrate taxonomy Tulipa albanica T. scardica T. serbica Kosovo Monocots

Abstract

Tulipa kosovarica (Liliaceae) is illustrated and described as a new species from a serpentine area in Rahoveci province, southwestern Kosovo. It is related to T. serbica from northern Kosovo and had previously been confused with T. scardica from (F.Y.R.) Macedonia and southern Kosovo, all found on serpentine soils.  Comparison is made with the recently described T. albanica from northeastern Albania. Ecological data for T. kosovarica is presented in detail and the distribution of all four species in the Balkan Peninsula is mapped.