82 Juniperus communis L.

Within this polymorphic and extremely widespread species several lower taxa are distinguished. Six varieties are mapped separately. Their distribution is partly tentatively delineated. The variety hemisphaerica (J. & C. Presl) Nym. in the mountains of the Mediterranean area is incompletely mapped for technical reasons (cf. Atlas Fl. Eur. 2/1973, map 183). P robably its distribution area in the eastern Atlas mountains should be larger. The species s. lat. belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. I, p. 74, 246 and map 66). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 22.