o:7733 Morphological delimitation of neglected species Armeria dalmatica Beck from Armeria canescens (Host) Boiss. en Abstract: Beck described Armeria dalmatica in 1898 based on the specimens collected in Croatia (islands of Pag and Brač) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Velež Mountain). Later, Novák changed the status of this taxon to the rank of a variety within A. canescens, while Trinajstić introduced the new combination A. canescens subsp. dalmatica. There is no consensus on the taxonomic treatment of this taxon; it is treated as a separate species, sometimes as a subspecies and more often as a synonym of A. canescens. Therefore, a morphometric study was conducted on the two populations of A. dalmatica and four populations of the closely related A. canescens. Based on 19 quantitative characters, canonical discriminant analysis (CDA) clearly shows the separation of the two groups, one belonging to A. canescens and the other to A. dalmatica. Characters such as the length of the outer leaf length, the width of the spikelet bract and the ratio of the length of the calyx tube to the length of the calyx limb contribute most to the separation of these taxa along the first CDA axis. It was also concluded that A. dalmatica is a halophyte occurring in several localities in Dalmatia. 1552100 978-86-6275-176-8 91552100 168629001 2025-05-30T12:31:24.984Z 44 no 46 Lazar Milivojević Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Takovska 43, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia 46 Gordana Tomović Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Takovska 43, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia 46 Sanja Đurović Faculty of Agriculture, University of Niš, Kosančićeva 4, 37000 Kruševac, Serbia 46 Sandro Bogdanović Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia 46 Niketić Marjan Natural History Museum, Njegoševa 51, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia 46 Uroš Buzurović Institute of Soil Science 0009-0000-7702-659X application/pdf 678284 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:7733 no yes 1 70 92000004 71A05 Book of Abstracts: 15th Symposium on the Flora of Southeastern Serbia and Neighboring Regions, Niš, 23th to 25th May 2025 13 14 2025