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Fritillaria rhodocanakis is a species of plant in the lily family Liliaceae. In its pure form, it is found only on Hydra Island (also called Ydra or Hydrea or Ύδρα) and on small neighboring islands in Greece . Additional populations occur in the Peloponnisos region of mainland Greece, though the specimens there show some degree of hybridization with F. spetsiotica and F. graeca. In 1987, some of the hybrids were described with the name Fritillaria rhodocanakis subsp. argolica, but this is now generally referred to as Fritillaria × spetsiotica Kamari.
Fritillaria rhodocanakis is a bulb-forming herbaceous perennial. The flowers are nodding and pendent, each tepal purple with a yellow tip.
Fritillaria rhodocanakis is confined to the island of Hydra (Idra) and a few smaller islets in the Argolic Gulf, where it grows in open limestone terrain. It favours phrygana (low, bushy Mediterranean scrub), clearings in Pinus halepensis (Aleppo pine) woodland, and even the margins of olive groves or vineyards, often beneath scattered shrubs. Because its entire range is limited to a handful of rocky outcrops and cultivated slopes, the species is classified as Vulnerable in the Red Data Book of Rare and Threatened Plants of Greece and Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (2017); it is protected under the Bern Convention, Annex II of the EU Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and Greek Presidential Decree 67/81.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fritillaria rhodocanakis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
