The eighth check-list of the series entitled "Check-list of Additional taxa to the Flora of Turkey" comprises a total of 152 taxa based on the data given in 133 papers published the period between December 2014-December 2016. Additionally taxa which have not been recorded neither in the 11 volumes of the Flora of Turkey nor in the seven previously published supplementary check-lists. With this paper the following are added to the Turkish flora: 127 taxa new to science and 25 taxa new records.
The diversity of vascular plants of Turkey has been documented in the "Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands" and published in nine volumes between 1965 and 1985. After the publication of this Flora, subsequent studies have greatly increased and many new taxa have been added because of Turkey' s rich flowering diversity. The identification of these additional taxa has necessitated the publication of the supplementary volumes to the
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