Micromeria acropolitana Halácsy (1908:179)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Satureja acropolitana (Halácsy) Greuter & Burdet in Willdenowia 14: 302 (1984 publ. 1985)
Invalid (synonym of M. nervosa) (Tan & Zieliński, 2023; POWO, 2024)
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of M. nervosa) (Tan & Zieliński, 2023; POWO, 2024)
Last record: 1906 (Tan et al., 2010)
Rediscovered in 2006 (Tan et al., 2010)
Distribution
the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Halácsy, E. v. 1908. Conspectus Florae Graecae. Suppl. 1: 87.
Other references:
Bräuchler, C., Ryding, O. and Heubl, G. (2008). The genus Micromeria (Lamiaceae), a synoptical update. Willdenowia 38: 363-410.
Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. and Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. Berlin: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem; Athens: Hellenic Botanical Society. [Englera 31].
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Greuter, W. (1996). Extinction in Mediterranean areas. Extinction Rates. Oxford University Press.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Maire, R. and Petitmengin, M. (1908). Étude des plantes vasculaires récoltées en Grèce (1906). – In: Maire, R., Matér. étude fl. geogr. bot. Orient. 4, separately published in Bull. Soc. Sci. Nancy, ser, 3, 9 (1908).
Paterson, A. (1979). Plants about the Parthenon. Garden (London), 104(2): 63-65.
Phitos, D., Strid, A., Snogerup, S. and Greuter, W. (eds). (1995). The Red Data Book of rare and threatened plants of Greece. Greece: WWF.
POWO. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.
POWO. (2024). Micromeria nervosa (Desf.) Benth. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 31 January 2024]
Sarlis, G. P. (1994). Contribution to the study of the flora of Attica (Greece). – Lagascalia, 17(2): 229-256.
Tan, Kit, Tsounis, Gregory and Tsounis, Lambros. (2010). Micromeria acropolitana (Lamiaceae) rediscovered in Athens (Greece). Phytologia Balcanica 16(2): 237-242.
Tan, Kit and Zieliński, Jerzy. (2023). Micromeria acropolitana (Lamiaceae) – epilogue. Phytologia Balcanica 29(1): 63-66.
Zervou, S. and Yannitsaros, A. (1999). Flora of the Acropolis of Athens and of the surrounding archaeological area, pp. 342-347. In: Eleftheriou, E. P. (ed.). Proc. 7th Panhellenic Sci. Conf., Alexandroupolis. Univ. Studio Press, Thessaloniki (in Greek).