Bk |
Balkan |
Taxa restricted to Balkan countries, occasionally extending to adjacent parts of SE Europe |
BI |
Balkan-Italy |
Taxa restricted to Balkan countries and Italy (amphi-Adriatic) |
BA |
Balkan-Anatolia |
Taxa restricted to Balkan countries and to Asia minor (Anatolia), occasionally extending to adjacent Caucasian countries (Georgia, Armenia), N Iraq, or the Crimea |
BC |
Balkan-Central Europe |
Taxa distributed in the Balkans, Carpathians, Alps and adjacent areas (mainly in the mountains) |
EM |
East Mediterranean |
Taxa restricted to the eastern Mediterranean, occasionally extending to adjacent Caucasian countries or S Italy, respectively |
Me |
Mediterranean |
Taxa with a circum-Mediterranean distribution including Portugal, occasionally extending to the Caucasus area and N Iran |
MA |
Mediterranean-Atlantic |
Taxa restricted to maritime western Europe and the Mediterranean |
ME |
Mediterranean-European |
Taxa restricted to the Mediterranean and temperate Europe, occasionally extending to NW Africa and the Caucasus region |
MS |
Mediterranean-SW Asian |
Taxa with a distribution range in one or more Mediterranean countries and extending to SW and C Asia |
EA |
European-SW Asian |
European taxa (occasionally reaching N African countries) with a distribution range extending to SW Asia, occasionally reaching C Asia |
ES |
Euro-Siberian |
Taxa with main distribution range in temperate Eurasia (occasionally reaching the Caucasus area) |
Eu |
European |
Taxa with a distribution all over Europe. In southern European countries this category, in fact, represents the Central European element |
Pt |
Paleotemperate |
Taxa of extratropical Eurasia including the Himalayas and E Asia, not (or at most marginally) extending to North America |
Ct |
Circumtemperate |
Taxa of both extratropical Eurasia and N America |
IT |
Irano-Turanian |
Taxa with main distribution range in arid SW and C Asia, extrazonally extending to the Mediterranean area |
SS |
Saharo-Sindian |
Taxa with main distribution range in arid N Africa and SW Asia, extrazonally extending to the Mediterranean area |
ST |
Subtropical-tropical |
Taxa widespread in the warmer regions of both hemispheres |
Bo |
Circum-) Boreal |
Taxa with main distribution range in northern and high montane Eurasia (occasionally extending to North America) |
AA |
Arctic-Alpine |
Taxa with main distribution range beyond the northern and above the high montane timberlines of Eurasia (occasionally extending to North America) |
Co |
Cosmopolitan |
Taxa distributed in all continents, i.e. beyond the northern hemisphere. – This category may be given in brackets after the known or supposed native distribution in cases of taxa worldwide spread by man |
[trop., subtrop., paleotrop., neotrop., pantrop., N-Am., S-Am., E-As., SE-As., S-Afr., Arab., Arab. NE-Afr., Caucas., Pontic, Europ., Austral.] |
Origin of the alien taxa in [ ] |
tropical, subtropical, paleotropical, neotropical, pantropical, N American, S American, E Asian, SE Asian, S African, Arabian, Arabian NE African, Caucasian, Pontic, European, Australian, unknown, etc., optionally a combination of these] |
En |
Greek endemics (incl. single-island and single-mountain endemics) |
Taxa with a distribution range restricted to the territory of Greece, i.e. to one or more of the 13 floristic regions as adopted in Flora Hellenica vol. 1. |