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Fam.: Iridaceae / Iris Fam.  

Genus:  Crocus  L.
 

Authors:
   J.GAY:  Jacques Étienne Gay (1786 - 1864), Swiss civil servant and botanist
   HERB.:  William Herbert (1778 - 1847), British scholar
   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
   sieberi:   Franz Wilhelm Sieber (1789 - 1844), traveling botanist from Prague (SIEBER)
   sublimis:   growing in high altitudes
 

Since Matthew revised the Crocuses in 1982, various Balkan crocuses have been listed as subspecies of the Cretan Crocus sieberi, namely:
- Crocus sieberi subsp. nivalis from Taygetos,
- Crocus sieberi subsp. atticus from Attica,
- Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis from western Greece: from the north of the Peloponnese through northern Greece to Albania and Bulgaria.
The compilation 'Vascular Plants of Greece, An annotated Checklist', published in 2013 as Englera 31 in collaboration of the Berlin Botanical Garden and the Hellenic Botanical Society of Athens, separates the three latter subspecies from the Cretan endemism Crocus sieberi and combines them into one single species Crocus nivalis BORY & CHAUB.

 

Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 1:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 2:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 3:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 4:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 5:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 6:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 7:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 8:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 9:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 10:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 11:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 12:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 13:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 14:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 15:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus, GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Fig. 16:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis / Snow Crocus
GR Peloponnes, Chelmos 18.5.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis ? / Snow Crocus, Cephalonia Ainos 23.4.2024
Fig. 17:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis ? / Snow Crocus
Cephalonia, Ainos 23.4.2024
Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis ? / Snow Crocus, Cephalonia Ainos 23.4.2024
Fig. 18:  Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis ? / Snow Crocus
Cephalonia, Ainos 23.4.2024

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