Short communication, Note

https://doi.org/10.2478/botcro-2018-0011

Taxonomic notes on the genus Chaenorhinum (Plantaginaceae) in Turkey

Golshan Zare orcid.org/0000-0002-5972-5191 ; Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University, 06100, Sıhiyye, Ankara, Turkey
Barış Özüdoğru ; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, 06800, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
Gökhan Ergan ; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, 06800, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
Çağatay Tavşanoğlu ; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, 06800, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract

Chaenorhinum gerense is an eastern Mediterranean species with rare distribution and a large variety in plant and seed morphology. In this study, the accuracy of the taxonomic status of this species, which was initially reported by P.H. Davis as C. rubrifolium from south eastern Turkey, is discussed and the typical representatives of C. rubrifolium were collected for the first time for Turkey from Muğla province, southwestern Anatolia. C. gerense is closely related to the C. rubrifolium, from which it differs by having a small and cream corolla with red blotch, capsule as long as or smaller 1/2-calyx teeth and triangular or rectangular blunt crest on seed. Detailed descriptions and identification keys for these two taxa are provided.

Keywords

Chaenorhinum rubrifolium; Chaenorhinum gerense; Mediterranean Basin; Plantaginaceae; Turkey

Hrčak ID:

206263

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/206263

Publication date:

1.10.2018.

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