tailieunhanh - A new species and 2 new records from Turkey

Campanula aktascii Aytaç & (Campanulaceae) has been described as a new species. The diagnostic characters of C. aktascii were compared and discussed with its resembling species and the ecology and phenology of the new species were presented. | Turkish Journal of Botany Research Article Turk J Bot (2013) 37: 1055-1060 © TÜBİTAK doi: A new species and 2 new records from Turkey Zeki AYTAÇ*, Hayri DUMAN Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Gazi University, Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey Received: Accepted: Published Online: Printed: Abstract: Campanula aktascii Aytaç & (Campanulaceae) has been described as a new species. The diagnostic characters of C. aktascii were compared and discussed with its resembling species and the ecology and phenology of the new species were presented. Onopordum rhodense Boiss. ex . (Asteraceae) and Daucus conchitae (Apiaceae) have been reported as a new records from Antalya (South Anatolia) for Turkey. The distribution map and Red List categories of these taxa according to the IUCN were also given. Key words: Campanula, Onopordum, Daucus, flora, Turkey 1. Introduction Campanulaceae is treated under 2 subfamilies, namely Campanuloideae and Cyhocarpoideae. The subfamily Campanuloideae is represented with 4 tribes, 56 genera, and about 1260 species; the first tribe, Campanuleae, includes ±50 genera and ±1200 species, mostly distributed in the northern parts of the Old World (Heywoodet al. 2007). The second is Cyanantheae, represented with 4 genera and 58 taxa in Afghanistan and East Asia. The third is Ostrowskieae, represented with 1 genus and 1 species in Central Asia. The fourth is Canarineae, comprising 1 genus and 3 species that spread from the Canary Islands and East Africa to Ethiopia and Malawi (Heywood et al., 2007). The genus Campanula L. includes about 420 taxa and is distributed in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Species are usually perennial herbs to shrubby in some cases, and some of them are annual herbs (CanoMaqueda and Talavera, 2011). The genus Campanula is represented with 6 subgenera, Campanula, Megalocalyx .