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Fam.: Iridaceae / Iris Fam.  

Synon.:  Crocus sieberi  J.GAY  subsp. atticus  (BOISS. & ORPH.) B.MATHEW

Genus:  Crocus  L.
 

Authors:
   BORY:  Jean Baptiste Georges Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent (1780 - 1846), French general and botanist
   CHAUB.:  Louis Athanase (Anastase) Chaubard (1785 - 1854), French botanist
   J.GAY:  Jacques Étienne Gay (1786 - 1864), Swiss civil servant and botanist
   BOISS.:  Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810 - 1885), Swiss botanist
   ORPH.:  Theodoros Georgios Orphanides (1817 - 1886), Greek poet and botanist
   B.MATHEW:  Brian Frederick Mathew (1936 - ), English biologist
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Crocus:   Greek name of Saffron
   nivalis:   snow
   sieberi:   Franz Wilhelm Sieber (1789 - 1844), traveling botanist from Prague (SIEBER)
   atticus:   from Attica (Greece)
 

The compilation 'Vascular Plants of Greece, An annotated Checklist', which has been issued in 2013 by the Botanical Gardens of Berlin and the Hellenic Botanical Society of Athens, integrates the former three continental subspecies of Crocus sieberi, namely Crocus sieberi subsp. nivalis from Mount Taygetos in Southern Peloponnesos, Crocus sieberi subsp. atticus from Eastern Central Greece, and Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis from the mountains in the West of Greece, into one species Crocus nivalis, und leaves the real Crocus sieberi separately as endemic species of Crete.

 

Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 1:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 2:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 3:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 4:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 5:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 6:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 7:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 8:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 9:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 10:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 11:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 12:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus
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Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus, GR Parnitha 22.3.2019
Fig. 13:  Crocus nivalis / Snow Crocus (?)
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