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• Dr. Antal Waisbecker was born 180 years ago

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  Lajos Balogh

  Balázs Keszei

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  Dr. Antal Waisbecker (1835–1916) was a Hungarian physician and the most prominent botanist of Vas county (West Hungary) at the turn of the 19–20^th century. He contributed with important floristic data for the botanical monography of Vas county, authored by Vince Borbás. He processed the pteridophytes of Vas county and cormophytes in the surroundings of Kőszeg. Antal Waisbecker was an expert in the knowledge of sedges too. He discovered and described the Carex fritschii. Remarkable amount of herbarium specimens collected by Waisbecker are deposited at the Savaria Museum (Szombathely, SAMU) and Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest, BP).

• Occurrence and habitat conditions of Gagea minima along the Sorok stream (W Hungary)

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  Dávid Schmidt

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  Gagea minima (L.) Ker Gawl. is a Eurasian bulbous species. It occurs sporadically in Hun­gary, but so far only one current occurrence is known from the Western Transdanubia. In recent years, a large metapopulation has been found in a 15 km long section of the Sorok stream. Its habitat is the high sandy bank above the stream, where it lives mostly in nitrophilous vegetation under non-native tree species. Its long-term persistence in this secondary habitat may have been facilitated by its bulbs, which may have been regularly dispersed by periodic disturbance. Myrmecochory may also have played a role in the local establishment of subpopulations. A number of recently found populations indicate that data on the distribution of the species is still incomplete. The lack of data is probably due to its short flowering period and relative inconspicuousness. Gagea minima is considered a valuable relict species in the altered environment of the Sorok stream and its surroundings.

• Literature reviews

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  Dávid Schmidt

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  Kulcsár L., Mesterházy A., Keszei B., Király G., Balogh L. (2022): Vas megye védett növényei. Szülőföld Könyvkiadó, Szombathely–Sárvár, 566 pp. ISBN 978-615-6172-39-6