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The site is interesting mainly for the rare flora and fine quality black pine forests. It is also unique locality in Greece for Alchemilla mollis. Concerning the fauna the quality of the site is indicated by the occurence of the invertebrate Maculinea alcon, which is refered to IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals and the invertebrate Anax imperator, which is contained to the Presidential Decree 67/1981.Concerning the wild growning plants the quality of the site is indicated by the occurrence of other important taxa. Among them, 7 taxa are greek endemics (between them one serpentine endemic), 5 taxa (Festuca koritnicensis, Ranunculus fontanus, Rosa arvensis, Scrophularia heterophylla, Sempervivum marmoreum) are included in the WCMC and/or European Red Data list, 8 taxa (Dactylorhiza sambucina, Dianthus viscidus, Jovibarba heuffelii, Knautia magnifica, Lilium carniolicum ssp. albanicum, Lilium chalcedonicum, Orchis pallens, Viola tricolor ssp. macedonica) are protected by the Greek Presidental Decree (67/1981), 5 taxa (Achillea lingulata, Carlina acaulis ssp. simplex, Poa media, Senecio subalpinus, Stellaria uliginosa) are rare in Greece and/or reach their extreme distribution limits in Northern Greece, 23 taxa (Achillea chrysocoma, Achillea holosericea, Alchemilla serbica, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, Carum graecum ssp. graecum, Carum graecum ssp. serpentinicum, Carum rupestre, Centaurea napulifera ssp. velenovskyi, Cerastium rectum, Dianthus haematocalyx ssp. haematocalyx, Dianthus pinifolius ssp. lilacinus, Dianthus stenopetalus, Erysimum microstylum, Festuca peristerea, Galium breviramosum, Hieracium cymosum ssp. heldeichianum, Myosotis alpestris ssp. suaveolens, Scrophularia aestivalis, Silene asterias, Trifolium pignantii, Veronica barrelieri, Viola frondosa, Viola orphanidis) are Balkan endemics and 5 taxa (Geum coccineum, Silene parnassica, Silene roemeri, Stachys balcanica, Thymus longicaulis ssp. chaubardii) find their main distribution area in the Balkan Peninsula extending also to Turkey or Italy. |
