TAILIEUCHUNG - Allium shirnakiense, sect. Melanocrommyum (Liliaceae), a new species from South-eastern Turkey
Allium shirnakiense & Rüstemoğlu sp. nova (sect. Melanocrommyum Webb & Berth.) is described as a species new to science on the basis of material collected from Şırnak Province. Morphologically, it is related to A. rhetoreanum Nab., which is an species endemic to South-eastern Turkey. A diagnosis, a taxonomic description, and some illustrations are given. | Research Article Turk J Bot 36 (2012) 450-454 © TÜBİTAK doi: Allium shirnakiense, sect. Melanocrommyum (Liliaceae), a new species from South-eastern Turkey Lütfi BEHÇET1,*, Mustafa RÜSTEMOĞLU2 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Bingöl University, Bingöl - TURKEY 2 Health Care Profesional School, Hakkari University, Hakkari - TURKEY Received: ● Accepted: Abstract: Allium shirnakiense & Rüstemoğlu sp. nova (sect. Melanocrommyum Webb & Berth.) is described as a species new to science on the basis of material collected from Şırnak Province. Morphologically, it is related to A. rhetoreanum Nab., which is an species endemic to South-eastern Turkey. A diagnosis, a taxonomic description, and some illustrations are given. Key words: Allium, taxonomy, Şırnak, Southeast Anatolia, Turkey Introduction During an expedition related to the project named “The Flora of Mezra District (Beytüşebap-Şırnak) and Surroundings” carried out in May 2010, we found some interesting specimens of Allium L. (Figures 1 and 2). The specimens were checked in the herbaria of VANF and AEF, against Flora of Turkey (Kollman, 1984; Davis et al., 1988; Özhatay & Tzanoudakis, 2000; Demirelma & Uysal, 2008; Özhatay et al., 2010; Koçyiğit & Özhatay, 2010; Eker & Koyuncu, 2011; Özhatay et al., 2011), Flora Iranica (Wendelbo, 1971), and Flora of Iraq (Wendelbo, 1985). After comparison with material of morphologically similar taxa, we decided that the present specimens belong to a new species close to Allium rhetoreanum. Allium, an extremely polymorphous and taxonomically complicated genus, comprises approximately 750 species widely distributed over * E-mail: lbehcet2000@ 450 the holarctics from dry subtropics to boreal zone (Fritsch et al., 2001; Memariani et al., 2007; Koçyiğit & Özhatay, 2010). It has a main centre of diversity in the mountainous areas of south-western and Middle Asia where widely distributed taxa as .
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