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The flora of the island of Brusnik (Dalmatia, Croatia)

Research of the vascular flora of the volcanic island of Brusnik was carried out in the period from 2000 to 2002. A total of 28 higher plant species was found and four of them are noted for the first time. The findings of 24 taxa were confirmed among the 41 previously noted by other authors, but not confirmed for 17 taxa. According to analysis of the life forms, the most numerous are Therophyta (13 species, 46.4%), followed by Chamaephyta (seven species, 25%), Phanerophyta (four species, 14.3%), Hemicryptophyta (three species, 10.7%) and Geophyta (one species, 3.6%). Due to analysis of floral elements, autochthonous taxa are grouped into three categories: Mediterranean floral element (18 species, 66.6%), South European floral element (five species, 18.5%) and widespread plants (four species, 14.8%). Especially important plants in the flora of Brusnik are Frankenia pulverulenta L. that is a very rare species in Croatian flora and Illyrian-Adriatic endemic plants: Centaurea ragusina L., Limonium vestitum (Salmon) Salmon subsp. brusnicense Trinajstić and Senecio leucanthemifolius Poir. var. reichenbachii Fiori. The results of our research showed that the island of Brusnik belongs, in phytogeographical terms, to the eumediterranean zone of the Mediterranean region.

Island of Brusnik; Central Dalmatia; Croatia; flora; endemic plants

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