TAILIEUCHUNG - One more Allium species for the Turkish flora: Allium saxatile

Allium saxatile . was collected from the north-western corner of European Turkey (Demirköy, Kırklareli) during the field survey of the “Yıldız Mountain Biosphere Project”. It has been reported as a new record for the Turkish flora. A description based on the collected specimens, photographs of its habitat and flowering plants, map of the distribution area, and its karyotype are given. | Research Article Turk J Bot 36 (2012) 644-649 © TÜBİTAK doi: One more Allium species for the Turkish flora: Allium saxatile Fatma Neriman ÖZHATAY, Mine KOÇYİĞİT*, Emine AKALIN URUŞAK Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, İstanbul University, 34116 Beyazıt, İstanbul – TURKEY Received: ● Accepted: Abstract: Allium saxatile . was collected from the north-western corner of European Turkey (Demirköy, Kırklareli) during the field survey of the “Yıldız Mountain Biosphere Project”. It has been reported as a new record for the Turkish flora. A description based on the collected specimens, photographs of its habitat and flowering plants, map of the distribution area, and its karyotype are given. Key words: Allium, new record, karyotype, Yıldız Mountains, Kırklareli, Turkey Introduction The genus Allium L. is represented by 187 wild taxa (165 species, 19 subspecies, and 3 varieties) in Turkey (Kollmann, 1984; Davis et al., 1988; Güner et al., 2000; Özhatay & Kültür, 2006, Özhatay et al., 2009, 2011; Koçyiğit & Özhatay, 2010). They are grouped into 13 sections: Rhizirideum (5 spp.), Schoenoprasum (2 spp.), Molium (10 spp.), Briseis (1 sp.), Chamaeprason (1 sp.), Porphyroprason (1 sp.), Brevispatha (5 spp.), Scorodon (14 spp., Codonoprasum (47 spp.), Allium (56 spp.), Acanthoprason (2 spp.), Melanocrommyum (26 spp.), and Kaloprasum (1 sp.). Turkish Allium species have been examined by N. Özhatay and M. Koyuncu since 1977, and they have made a valuable contribution and published several papers and carried out projects (Koyuncu, 1979a, 1979b; Özhatay, 1984), and recently 2 sections “Sect. Codonoprasum and Sect. Melanocrommyum” have been reviewed in a doctorate thesis supervised by N. Özhatay. Taxonomical treatments have revealed a lot of new species and new records for the Turkish flora * E-mail: minekocyigit@ 644 recently (Hamzaoğlu, 2012; Koyuncu, 2012; Vural & Şapçı, 2012, Behçet et al., .

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• Allium saxatile
• Genus Allium L
• Habitat and flowering plants
• Ovoid–cylindrical
• Rhomboid–ovate