CHOROLOGICAL STUDIES OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM SOZOLOGICAL CATEGORIES OF THE ROMANIAN FAGARAS MOUNTAINS FLORA (ROMANIA)

Based on the Romanian Flora containing more than 4000 species and subspecies of higher plants, a significant amount of medicinal plants is growing in Arges County.
The information from the literature and personal researches in the field have shown the existence of 2009 species and subspecies in the Fagaras Mountains in the Arges County.
All these taxonomic categories belong to 584 genera and 144 botanical families.
Among these species and subspecies, 411 are included in the following categories of the Red List: rare, vulnerable, endemic to Romania, endemic to Romania but not endangered, species having rare European specific spreading area, species having endangered European specific spreading area (IUCN Red List, Habitats Directive Annex IIb, IVb and Bern Convention -App I). Results of this paper regarding chorology, ecology and medicinal proprieties of the studied species offer useful information concerning the biodiversity, conservation and possibilities for economic and medicinal exploitation.

I International Symposium on Medicinal, Aromatic and Nutraceutical Plants from Mountainous Areas (MAP-Mountain 2011)

V. Alexiu

vascular flora, endangered categories, Arges County

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.955.22