Short communication, Note

https://doi.org/10.2478/botcro-2018-0013

Resurrection of a regionally extinct taxon in Croatia – the case of Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link (Poaceae)

Sandro Bogdanović orcid.org/0000-0002-1952-6059 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Botany, Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb
Vedran Šegota orcid.org/0000-0002-1952-6059 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Botany, Herbarium Croaticum, Marulićev trg 20/2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Antun Alegro orcid.org/0000-0002-1952-6059 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Botany, Herbarium Croaticum, Marulićev trg 20/2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

A regionally extinct taxon, Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link subsp. arundinacea H. Lindb., has been rediscovered in the Croatian flora after 78 years. Previously it was known only from two coastal sand dune sites in Northern Dalmatia. The habitat at the locality of Crnika near Lopar on the northern Adriatic island of Rab is destroyed and A. arenaria subsp. arundinacea does not grow there anymore. At the second locality, on the sand dunes of Kraljičina plaža in the vicinity of the town of Nin, A. arenaria subsp. arundinacea was rediscovered and confirmed after 174 years. This is the only population of this taxon in Croatia, counting 48 mature individuals where the psammophylous habitat of Kraljičina plaža is under strong anthropogenic influence. This taxon is now classified as critically endangered (CR) and merits adequate active protection and conservation of its psammophylous habitat.

Keywords

Ammophila; conservation; extinction; Nin; psammophytes; rare species

Hrčak ID:

206264

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/206264

Publication date:

1.10.2018.

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