Loncomelos koprulense (Asparagaceae), a new species from southern Turkey.

Sandro Bogdanović,Cristina Salmeri,Salvatore Brullo

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.175.62037

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Abstract

A new species, Loncomelos koprulense (Asparagaceae), is described and illustrated from southern Turkey. It is a very rare endemic species growing on small semi-rocky escarpments within the Köprülü Kanyon in the province of Antalya. Morphologically for its hairy leaves, L. koprulense shows some relationships with L. malatyanum and L. tardum, species localized in Anatolia too. The chromosome number of the new species is 2n = 2x = 22. Geographical distribution map for L. koprulense, L. malatyanum and L. tardum is provided.

Highlights

The genus Ornithogalum L., on account of its remarkable morphological and karyological variability, has been the object of various taxonomical treatments, which led to the recognition of several subgenera, sections and series or its splitting into different genera (Rafinesque 1840; Salisbury 1866; Speta 1998a, b, 2001; Pfosser and Speta 1999; Manning et al 2009; Martínez-Azorín et al 2009)
For its hairy leaves, L. koprulense shows some relationships with L. malatyanum and L. tardum, species localized in Anatolia too
From the literature data (Zahariadi 1977, 1980; Wittmann 1985; Martínez-Azorín 2008; Martínez-Azorín et al 2009), the circumscription of the genus Ornithogalum within the tribe Ornithogaleae has always been problematic, emphasizing that the traditional morphological approach is not sufficient to discriminate the taxa at generic level

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Introduction

The genus Ornithogalum L., on account of its remarkable morphological and karyological variability, has been the object of various taxonomical treatments, which led to the recognition of several subgenera, sections and series or its splitting into different genera (Rafinesque 1840; Salisbury 1866; Speta 1998a, b, 2001; Pfosser and Speta 1999; Manning et al 2009; Martínez-Azorín et al 2009). Anatomical and karyological observations, it was concluded that this new geophyte is taxonomically quite isolated, only showing some similarities in its hairy leaves with L. tardum Speta and Ornithogalum malatyanum Mutlu (here considered as a member of Loncomelos), both occurring in Turkey (Speta 2006; Mutlu and Karakuş 2012). It is described as a new species and named L. koprulense

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