Abstract
Crepispalaestina subsp. babcockii Inceer & Aksu Kalmuk subsp. nov. (Asteraceae, Cichorieae) is described and illustrated. It grows in shady places and red pine forest in southwest Anatolia, Turkey. The chromosome number of the new subspecies is 2n = 2x = 8. The diagnostic morphological characters that distinguish C. palaestina subsp. babcockii from morphologically similar taxa C. palaestina subsp. palaestina and C. pulchra are discussed, and a conservation status for the new taxon is suggested.Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 25(1): 45-49, 2018 (June)
Highlights
Crepis L. is a large, critical and taxonomically difficult genus in the tribe Cichorieae of the family Asteraceae
Ekim (2012) listed 42 Turkish taxa of Crepis, but our recent taxonomic data obtained from revision of Crepis in Turkey indicate that the genus together with the inclusion of the new subspecies described here has 40 taxa in Turkey, of which 8 are endemic
Among the species occurring in Turkey, C. palaestina (Boiss.) Bornm. is one of the rare species and is found only in Manavgat of Antalya province in southwest Anatolia (Lamond, 1975)
Summary
Crepis L. is a large, critical and taxonomically difficult genus in the tribe Cichorieae of the family Asteraceae. Among the species occurring in Turkey, C. palaestina (Boiss.) Bornm. Is one of the rare species and is found only in Manavgat of Antalya province in southwest Anatolia (Lamond, 1975). C. palaestina was reported with a brief description from a single locality, which had no completely mature achenes, in the Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands (Lamond, 1975).
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