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As I understand it, it has been found growing on certain areas of Mount Olympus and Mount Olympus is wholly inside the national park. I am just going out so cannot check this further now.
Cwmhiraeth (
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08:57, 8 March 2019 (UTC)reply
I don't know the precise boundaries of the National Park, but the IUCN site states "Most of the population of the plant is included in the National Forest Park of Olympos", and I don't know the boundaries for this either.
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14:28, 8 March 2019 (UTC)reply
The original, and correct, spelling of the genus name is Jancaea. The later commonly (and for many years universally) accepted spelling "Jankaea" was proposed to be conserved but the proposal was rejected. See these references: