TAILIEUCHUNG - Prospero cudidaghense sp. nov. (Asparagaceae): A new species from southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
Prospero cudidaghense Fırat & Yıldırım (Asparagaceae) is described as a species new to science based on morphological studies. It is endemic to the eastern Anatolian region of Turkey. P. cudidaghense is known from a single locality on Cudi Mountain, located in Şırnak Province. It is an isolated taxon of the genus Prospero. | Turkish Journal of Botany Turk J Bot (2016) 40: 388-393 © TÜBİTAK doi: Research Article Prospero cudidaghense sp. nov. (Asparagaceae): a new species from southeastern Anatolia, Turkey 1 2, Mehmet FIRAT , Hasan YILDIRIM * Department of Biology Education, Faculty of Education, Yüzüncü Yıl University, Van, Turkey 2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ege University, Bornova, İzmir, Turkey 1 Received: Accepted/Published Online: Final Version: Abstract: Prospero cudidaghense Fırat & Yıldırım (Asparagaceae) is described as a species new to science based on morphological studies. It is endemic to the eastern Anatolian region of Turkey. P. cudidaghense is known from a single locality on Cudi Mountain, located in Şırnak Province. It is an isolated taxon of the genus Prospero. It is related to P. autumnale and P. seisumsianum. Diagnostic morphological characters are discussed and compared with those of related taxa. It can be easily distinguished from all taxa in the genus Prospero by its spring flowering time, synanthous leaves, and chasmophytic habit. Key words: Taxonomy, Prospero, Şırnak, Turkey 1. Introduction The genus Prospero comprises about 25 species and is distributed through southern England and the Mediterranean basin to the Caucasus and northern Iraq (Speta, 1982, 1998b). According to the same authors, it is especially characterized by its lack of bracts and prophylls, autumn flowering period, and hysteranthous leaves, appearing in autumn and withering in spring, with the exception of P. seisumsianum, whose leaves appear in spring (Yıldırım, 2014). Until recently, the taxa of Prospero were considered in the genus Scilla by many authors. However, after molecular, morphological, and karyological studies, it was separated from the genus Scilla at generic rank (Speta, 1982, 1998b; Yıldırım, 2014; Govaerts, 2015). In May 2014, during fieldwork on Cudi .
đang nạp các trang xem trước
