Hieracia Balcanica XII. Oldest Collection Of Hieracium Alpinum (Asteraceae) From The Balkan Peninsula

Hieracium alpinum L. is a common species occurring in the highest, siliceous mountains of Central Europe (Alps, Harz, Carpathians, Sudetes) and in Northern Europe (Greenland, Island, Scandinavia, British Islands, Ural Mts) (Bräutigam 1992). Its southernmost, disjoined localities are on the Apennine Peninsula and Balkan Peninsula. The only Balkan occurrence of H. alpinum is in the Vranica Mts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, found in 1938 (Horvat & Pawłowski 1939). Pawłowski’s publication from 1963 is the recognized source (cf. Bräutigam 1992: 328), even though Pawłowski (1963: 482) wrote that together with Horvat he published the first information on H. alpinum in the Vranica Mts in 1939. Hieracium alpinum is quite frequent in the Vranica Mts. The plants from the Vranica Mts were found to be triploid (Ilnicki & Szeląg 2011) like the majority of those in the European range of the species. The diploids are confined to the Eastern and Southern Carpathians (Mráz & Szeląg 2004). During a revision of Hieracium collection in the Moravian Museum in Brno (BRNM) I found two herbarium sheets of H. alpinum also collected