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Degenia velebitica; photograph (c) Javna ustanova Park prirode Velebit, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Javna ustanova Park prirode Velebit, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-05-20

Degenia velebitica (Degen) Hayek

Velebit degenia

Brassicaceae · Yugoslavia

No habitat climate
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Degenia velebitica, photograph (c) Javna ustanova Park prirode Velebit, some rights reserved (CC BY)Degenia velebitica, photograph Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDegenia velebitica, photograph Orjen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDegenia velebitica, photograph ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDegenia velebitica, photograph Komentator, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDegenia velebitica, photograph Լիլիթ85, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 10 photographs ›

Summary

Degenia is a monotypic plant genus in the family Brassicaceae containing the single species Degenia velebitica. The yellow-flowered plant is endemic to the Velebit and Kapela mountain ranges of Croatia. It is an endangered species and has had protected status since 1964. It grows in open stony grasslands, settled scree slopes, and rock crevices fully exposed to sun and stormy northeasterly (Bora) winds, from 300 to 1300 meters elevation.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Degenia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 28 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 28 of the 28 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeYugoslavia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker44.57, 15.09 · in the densest population, 28 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 28 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 9 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 19 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 28 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 28 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Javna ustanova Park prirode Velebit, some rights reserved (CC BY); Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Orjen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Komentator, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Լիլիթ85, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Names & registers

Also known as Alyssum velebeticum; Lesquerella velebitica. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Brassicaceae
Described by
(Degen) Hayek
Native to
Yugoslavia
Wild records
28 in range · 9 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2228 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Degenia velebitica (Degen) Hayek (the item's: IPNI 281914-1, POWO 281915-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Degenia velebitica to Degenia, this species' genus (Q15623954), which holds one accepted species in Kew's WCVP
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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