GAVRIL NEGREAN Bucureşti, Bd. I. Maniu 55, România;

K A N I T Z I A Kanitzia 18: 53 58., Szombathely, 2011 Journal of Botany ABOUT THE SALVIA NEMOROSA SUBSP. BABADAGENSIS AND SALVIA DOBROGENSIS IN ROMANIA AND BULGARIA GAVRIL NEGREAN 775311-Bucureşti, Bd. I. Maniu 55, România; e-mail: negrean_gavril@yahoo.com Abstract Negrean G. (2011): About the Salvia nemorosa subsp. babadagensis and Salvia dobrogensis in Romania and Bulgaria. Kanitzia 18:53 58. In this paper the author presents critical considerations on the taxonomy, nomenclature history and chorology of two Salvia-taxa distributed in south-eastern part of Europe (Romania and Bulgaria). The review is based mainly on the author s own field investigations supplemented however by literature, data of various monographies. As a result of the taxonomical survey and nomenclatural remarks is proposed to be accepted the following new combinations: Salvia nemorosa (L.) subsp. babadagensis (E. I. Nyárády) G. Negrean comb. nova, and Salvia dobrogensis G. Negrean nomen novum. Key words: Salvia nemorosa subsp. babadagensis, Salvia dobrogensis, taxonomy, nomenclature, chorology, Romania, Bulgaria. In the south-eastern part of Romania, in the whole of historical Dobrudja (Dobrogea, Dobruja) SE and E outermost part of Muntenia, there is a Salvia taxon close related to S. nemorosa but holding special characteristics among which the most obvious of all is its being covered with hairs (villous). The nomenclature of this taxon is difficult as well as complex. Several denominations have been proposed for this extremely hairy plant. Following a thorough inquiry for its nomenclature we concluded that the most adequate epithet is the one we are proposing below. Nevertheless when accessing The Plant List on the Website, we found that Salvia nemorosa L. subsp. tesquicola is a synonym of Salvia nemorosa L. subsp. pseudosylvestris (Stapf) Bornm., denomination unknown within the florae available to us: Flora Romaniae (SǍVULESCU1961), Flora URSS (KOMAROV), Bulgarian Flora (MARKOVA 1989), Turkish Flora (DONNER 1990). According to other (Website) sources, the two subspecies mentioned seem to be independent. There are significant discrepancies concerning the chorology of the second taxon (subsp. pseudosylvestris) which is cited in the following European countries: Greece, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia. However Romania is not mentioned. On the other hand, the Website source says the NW part of Russia, which is in contrast with a plant of continental steppe like ours, peculiarly missing from Romania in the cited source. Therefore, we consider that synonym incorrect and keep the combination as written below. Salvia nemorosa L. subsp. babadagensis* (E. I. Nyárády) G. Negrean, comb. nov. S. villicaulis Borbás subsp. babadagensis E. I. NYÁRÁDY, in Acta Bot. Szeged: 44 (1942); S. villicaulis Borbás var. babadagensis (E. I. NYÁRÁDY) Borza, in Consp. Fl. Romaniae 2: 229 (1949); S. villicaulis Borbás var. pseudovillicaulis Prodan 1957, 53

forma villosissima Prodan 1957; S. villicaulis var. simplex Prodan 1957 S. tesquicola Klokov & Pobed., in Flora URSS 21: 662 (Addenda) (1954); S. nemorosa L. subsp. tesquicola (Klokov & Pobed.) Soó, in Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 11: 249 (1965); S. amplexicaulis auct. roman., quoad pl. South-East Romania, non Lam. * From Babadag, locality in the Romanian Dobrudja (Dobrogea) The first correct combination for the taxonomical position of this plant (subspecies) is the one made by NYÁRÁDY in 1942. The combination of SOÓ (1965) is based on the fact that probably he did not know that S. villicaulis (today named amplexicaulis) does not grow in the central part of Dobrudja. The first who collected a plant in the affinity area of the our herb in Dobrudja were the Sintenis brothers and they were classified by Uechtritz [?PR] (KANITZ 1881: 93) as Salvia betonicifolia (auct., non Etling). "Dobr.: passim in desertis, semper cum ambob., anteced. (S. nutans L.) ex quibus certe hibrida". The plant is then mentioned and extensively described with this name by BRANDZA (1898: 312), who emphasizes the villous stalk, therefore this plant is not related to Etling s. The next mention was made by GRECESCU (1909: 132) under the name of "Salvia betonicaefolia Etling" in Valul lui Trajan, Constanţa, located in Dobrudja however with no description but probably referring to the same plant. The two indications are also to be found in the Abstract written by PRODAN (1938: 35) without any comments. Much later PRODAN (1957: 308) introduces in Dobrudja this taxon that seems to be related to our plant "S. villicaulis Borb. var. simplex Prod. var. nova, Mangalia, ad viam. I visited the area myself, it contains a multitude of Salvia-species and it was there where I only collected S. babadagensis! Another taxon is: Salvia villicaulis Borb. var. pseudovillicaulis Prod. var. nova ad viam ferream prope Feteşti; et forma villosissima Prod., non rite publicatum, sine diagn. latina! DIHORU (1970: 135) made comprehensive remarks concerning the taxonomy of this plant on our territory and determined that only Salvia tesquicola springs up in Dobrudja. Nevertheless both subspecies (subsp. nemorosa, subsp. tesquicola) appear in the Eastern outermost part of Muntenia and in Dobrudja steppe, forest steppe and in the identifying work of BELDIE (1979: 78) or in various editions of CIOCÂRLAN floras were indicated S. amplexicaulis Lam. (S. villicaulis Borbás) from the counties of Ilfov, Constanţa, Tulcea (CIOCÂRLAN 1990: 182); counties of Caraş-Severin, Mehedinţi, Ilfov, Constanţa, Tulcea (CIOCÂRLAN 2000: 667); and counties of Caraş-Severin, Mehedinţi, Constanţa, Tulcea (CIOCÂRLAN 2009: 659). The populations of S. nemorosa subsp. babadagensis grows throughout Dobrudja as well as in the east and southern outermost part of Muntenia, south of the line set by Feteşti Silva Ciornuleasa Comana Vadul-Lat Slatina (inform. ined.). It is likely that the plant was mistaken for S. amplexicaulis Lam. or S. nemorosa, just like Prodan (1939) did with the plants in Dobrudja, naming it in accordance with the denomination given by Panţu, S. nemorosa from Silistra, Cavarna, Harman-Cuiusu, Opancea (PRODAN 1938) or S. villicaulis in Cadrilater at Tulcea (PRODAN 1938). In Romania Salvia amplexicaulis Lam. (syn. S. villicaulis Borbás) is a very rare species growing only in few areas in the SW of the country and it was erroneously indicated 54

in the Romanian part of Dobrudja (RĂVĂRUŢ & NYÁRÁDY 1961: 259). Beldie also mentions it in Dobrudja and in the eastern part of the Romanian Plain, the same as in the identifying papers mentioned above. Other sources: "East of Romania, from steppe to.." (SÂRBU, ŞTEFAN, IVĂNESCU & MÂNZU 2001, vol. II: 116) - is not steppic plant! Personally I had an unsuccessful search of S. amplexicaulis throughout the Romanian Dobrudja. Here are the closest spots in NE Bulgaria: Kamen Bryag-Yailata, Rusalca, Bolata-Dere (G. NEGREAN p. 242: in FĂGĂRAŞ, ANASTASIU & NEGREAN 2008), Yailata, under plateau level prope littore Mare Nigrum, in herbosis, 43 26 552 N, 28 32 930 E, alt. circa 15 m, 8 VIII 2008, G. Negrean (N 11.464) [BUC], Balcic W, in fossa viam, adventiva, 6 VI 2006, G. Negrean (N 7491), Nesebăr N, in fossa viam, 5 VI 2006, G. Negrean (N 7435), Ad Pontum, Irakli, prope Mare Nigrum 44 44.. N, 27 51.. E, alt. circa 3 m, 24 VI l996, G. Negrean [BUC]. It can be concluded that S. nemorosa subsp. babadagensis is a continental element with the SW limit in Bulgaria (NE) and it is not a Pontic flora element as Romanian botanists indicated (CIOCÂRLAN 2009: 659) etc. The plant is encountered in the Flora Europaea (HEDGE 1972) even from Bulgaria, but Markova (1989) claims it couldn t be located by Bulgarian authors. We hereby confirm that the plant is certainly to be encountered in Bulgaria [BUCA]. It frequently turns up in the entire Bulgarian Dobrudja, from Balchik to Cape Kaliakra: ex. Kavarna S, in collibus Cerakman, 18 V 1999, G. Negrean [BUCA]; Balchik, Colina Alba, 18 V 1999, G. Negrean [BUCA]; Balchik WNW, vallis Balchik, 21 V 1999, socio cum S. dobrogensis Negrean and S. nutans L.), sed E Russe: Russe SSE, Vallis Lom, 42 40.. N, 26 20.. E, 22 VI 1996, G. Negrean [BUCM]. Salvia dobrogensis Negrean, nomen novum Given the status of the new denomination for Salvia debated above, a new designation must be fixed for the hybrid between Salvia nutans L. and Salvia nemorosa L. subsp. babadagensis (E. I. Nyárády) Negrean, especially because of the nomenclatural confusions made in its case. Salvia dobrogensis Negrean, nomen novum (syn.: S. nutans L. S. nemorosa L. subsp. babadagensis (E. I. Nyárády) Negrean) Salvia cernavodae E. I. Nyárády [S. nutans villicaulis (from Dobrudja)]). Salvia betonicifolia auct. roman. et bulg., non Etling, pro plantae dobrogensis We did not find the typus specimen in the herbarium in Cluj (CL) and most of the materials submitted under this name were rather S. nemorosa subsp. babadagensis. I have thus preferred a new denomination in order to eliminate confusions, especially with S. amplexicaulis which does not grow in the central part of Dobrudja, where the type seems to have been described. An accurate description of this hybrid plant is provided by Săvulescu & Zahariadi (SĂVULESCU & ZAHARIADI 1934) using plants from the historic area of Basarabia, under the name of S. betonicifolia Etling (S. nemorosa nutans), but the description mainly refers to the hybrid between S. nutans with S. nemorosa subsp. babadagensis. On the other hand, S. betonicifolia Etling was described in Germany where S. nemorosa subsp. babadagensis does not grow. To enhance confusion, the hybrid between S. villicaulis and S. nemorosa (S. digenea Borbás) encountered in Balaton area (Hungary) is indicated as 55

present in Dobrudja by the Flora Romaniae. Mistakenly do CIOCÂRLAN & COSTEA (1997: 101) indicate the collibus Allah-Bair in Dobrudja instead of Salvia betonicifolia Etl., a taxon characterized in Germany, recently acknowledged as a synonym of Salvia nutans (Website). Conceding that the hybrid Salvia betonicifolia Etl. is a synonym of Salvia nutans is not correct. The illustration in the Romanian Flora vol. 8, Pl. 46, fig.1. is revealing, but the citation of it from Dobrudja is improper: frequent in the steppes of Dobrudja (RĂVĂRUŢ & NYÁRÁDY 1961: 270). Salvia betonicifolia Etling (S. "betonicufolia") from NE of Bulgaria (Kaliakra and Baltata, Davidoff 1905) cited by Flora of Bulgaria (MARKOVA 1989: 458) is perhaps the same plant. The Salvia betonicifolia Etling is considered as synonym of Salvia nutans in the same index! This must be incorrect, as the plant illustrated in Flora Romaniae volume 8 is certainly a hybrid. Thus, in the case of the Dobrudjan flora, the correct mode to cite it as a synonym is: Salvia betonicifolia auct. roman et bulg., a plantae dobrogensem, non Etling! I collected this hybrid in the vicinity of Balchik: Balchik WNW, vallis Balchik, 21 V 1999, socio cum S. nemorosa subsp. babadagensis et S. nutans L. [BUCA]; Balchik E, in collibus aridis, inter parentes, 10 VIII 1999, G. Negrean [HGN]; also in Tuzlata, 10 VIII 1999, G. Negrean [BUCA]. REFERENCES BELDIE A. (1977-1979): Flora României - determinator ilustrat al plantelor vasculare. - Bucureşti, Edit. Academiei Române. (1: 1-412, 1977; 2: 1-406, 1979). BORZA A. (1947-1949): Conspectus Florae Romaniae Regionumque affinium. - Cluj. (1-160 in 1947; pp. 161-360 in 1949). BRANDZA D. (1898): Flora Dobrogei. - Ediţie îngrijită de Sabba Ştefănescu, Bucuresci, Inst. Arte Grafice Carol Göbl. 1-490. CIOCÂRLAN V., COSTEA I. (1997): Flora Rezervaţiei botanice Dealul Alah Blair (Jud. Constanţa). Acta Bot. Horti bucurest. (1995-1996): 97-104. CIOCÂRLAN V. (2000): Flora ilustrată a României - Pteridophyta et Spermatophyta. - Ediţia a doua revăzută şi adăugită, - Bucureşti, Edit. Ceres, 1138 pp. CIOCÂRLAN V. (2009): Flora ilustrată a României - Pteridophyta et Spermatophyta. /Ediţia a III-a/. - Bucureşti, Edit. Ceres, 1141 pp. DONNER J. (1990): Distribution maps to P. H. Davis, Flora of Turkey, 1-10. - Linzer Biol. Beitr. 22(2): 381-515. FĂGĂRAŞ M., ANASTASIU Paulina & NEGREAN G. (2008): Flora şi vegetaţia zonei costiere Cap Midia - Cap Kaliakra. pp. 71-269; 429-444. In: FĂGĂRAŞ M. (coord.) (2008): Biodiversitatea zonei costiere a Dobrogei dintre Capul Midia şi Capul Kaliacra. Univ. Ovidius Constanţa, Edit. Ex Ponto 451 pp. GRECESCU D. (1909): Suplement la Conspectul Florei Române, plante ulterioare, adiţii şi rectificări însoţit şi de un Appendix final de plante rare aflate în România, până - Bucureşti, Inst. de Arte Grafice Carol Göbl, 1-220 pp + 6 pl. HEDGE I. C. (1972): Salvia L. pp. 188-192. In: TUTIN T. G. & al. (eds) Flora Europaea Vol. 3. Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1-370. pp. + 5 maps. 56

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DESPRE SALVIA NEMOROSA SUBSP. BABADAGENSIS ŞI SALVIA DOBROGENSIS ÎN ROMÂNIA ŞI ÎN BULGARIA Rezumat Lucrarea tratează problemele de taxonomie, nomenclatură, istorie şi corologie a doi taxoni din genul Salvia cu localizare preponderentă in regiunea istorică a Dobrogei (România şi Bulgaria). În urma cercetărilor de teren, herbare şi publicaţii de specialitate asupra taxonului Salvia nemorosa subsp. tesquicola autorul este de părere că acesta trebuie revizuit şi denumit ca o nouă combinatie taxonomică: Salvia nemorosa L. subsp. babadagensis (E. I. Nyárády) G. Negrean comb. nova, taxon care este un element continental şi nu pontic cum este indicat în literatura actuală de specialitate. De asemenea, se circumscrie poziţia taxonomică a noului hibrid Salvia dobrogensis (S. nutans S. nemorosa subsp. babadagensis), care nu trebuie confundat cu taxonul S. amplexicaulis Lam. dar care poate fi sinonimizat cu hibridul Salvia betonicifolia auct. roman et bulg., non Etling. 58