Rhinanthus rumelicusVelen.

WFO wfo-0000464155 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rhinanthus rumelicus, photographed by Ljaž
fig. a Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-26 / obs. 200757736
Rhinanthus rumelicus, photographed by Ljaž
fig. b Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200757689
Rhinanthus rumelicus, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. c Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49977725
Rhinanthus rumelicus, photographed by Ljaž
fig. d Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200757713
Rhinanthus rumelicus, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. e Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49977735

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Rhinanthus rumelicus is native: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Ukraine AlbaniaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGermanyGreeceHungaryNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Rhinanthus rumelicus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alectorolophus aschersonianus M.Schulze
  • Alectorolophus rumelicus (Velen.) Borbás
  • Alectorolophus sagorskii Semler
  • Fistularia rumelica (Velen.) Wettst.
  • Rhinanthus alectorolophus subsp. aschersonianus (M.Schulze) Hartl
  • Rhinanthus alectorolophus var. bornmuelleri (v.Soó) Hartl
  • Rhinanthus aschersonianus (M.Schulze) Soó
  • Rhinanthus major var. abbreviata Murb.
  • Rhinanthus rumelicus subsp. simonkaianus Soó

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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