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anean influences are obvious. The existence of numerous marshes in the Carpathian Mts.
should not be neglected, covering numerous glacial relics. Some species of this list belong
to the category of rare species, endangered in Romania and were recently presented in the
newly published “Red Book of Vascular Plants in Romania” (DIHORU & NEGREAN 2009).
Besides the very rare species, many plants belong to the Red list of superior Plants in Romania
(OLTEAN, NEGREAN & al. 1994). According to our statistical data, about 4000 major
taxa are indicated in Romania. Among them the endemic elements are very important:
would be about 120 taxa in South East Carpathians (Dacic elements - fide Pax); about 12
taxa in Dobrudja (Scythic elements - G. Negrean ined.); about 10 taxa in Romanian Plain,
northern part of Bularia, Bulgarian Plain and Moldova Plateau (Gethic elements, ined.);
about 5 taxa in the Transylvanian Basin (Transylvanian elements); about 7-8 taxa in Tisa
Plain, Romanian Part [or planitia transtibiscensis, pars romaniae /nomen fide Soó and Negrean,
ined./ Danubian elements (fide Meusel): Pannonian elements]. The Danubian elements
(fide Meusel) are divided (in my opinion) in two: pannonic elements (Carpathian
Basin: Pannonian Plain and margins) and Gethic elements (Romanian Plain, Bulgarian
Danubian Plain and Moldavian Plain and Plateau).
The first plants from the historical Dacia were mentioned by Dioscorides (1499,
1518, 1906), and largely commented in the specialty literature, also having illustrations of
high value. Same old illustrations are those on the metopes of the monument sacred to the
Emperor Trajan: Tropaeum Trajani; as well as those on the Trajan column in Rome, whose
constructor architect accompanied the Roman troops in the expeditions of Dacia conquest
(STOICULESCU 1985), just like Dioscorides, probably throughout Dobrudja (DRĂGULESCU
1987). Also from the same period the great Latin poet Ovidius Naso mentioned the plants,
in his exile in Tomis, in Dobrudja. We can also find mentions at Harsányi (1908). Kanitz
(1861, 1862, 1863) found plants present in medieval documents. We ourselves, found such
plant names in the “Register of Oradea” (Magnovaradiensis Registrum). In modern ages,
we have the first lists of plants in our area in Marsigli (1726) and Linnaeus (1753) who
published species from our country (Dracocephalum moldavica L., Scabiosa transsilvanica
L.). Afterwards, the Romania flora continually enriched, nowadays reaching almost 4000
taxa (species and subspecies), being one of the countries with a high floristic diversity
(after countries like Greece, Spain, France, Italy). After the publication of the 13 volumes
of the monumental opera “Flora României” numerous lists with novelties were made. An
important work regarding the Romanian flora is the one written by Oprea (2005), including
taxa and chorological information concerning all the species in the country. That paper
however hardly draws conclusions on the species not included in the 13 volumes of the
Flora or on the species rediscovered after more than 50 years, many of them having been
considered “extinct” by some works. Unfortunately, these primary information were not
introduced in the above mentioned work. In our species list we highlighted the fact if a
plant was not indicated in over 50 years!
Material and Methods
Numerous works and herbariums were examined, especially journals in our country
and abroad, which was somehow made easier by the fact that we were in charge with
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