A new species of Silene (Caryophyllaceae) from east Anatolia, Turkey

A new section of Silene (Caryophyllaceae) including a new species from South Anatolia, Turkey

“…The main center of diversity is Eurasia, especially in the Mediterranean and SW Asia (Greuter 1995, Oxelman & Lidén 1995. Anatolia is one of the richest Silene species hosting areas with 165 taxa listed in the Flora of Turkey and East Aegean Islands (Coode & Cullen 1967) plus several recent additions [e.g., Davis et al (1988), Tan & Vural (2000), Vural & Dönmez (2002), Duran & Menemen (2003), Aytaç & Duman (2004), Deniz & Düşen (2004), Özgökçe et al (2005), Genç et al (2007), Tugay & Ertuğrul (2008), Bağcı (2008), Kaya & Ertekin (2009), Yıldız & Dadandı (2009), Hamzaoğlu et al (2010), Yıldız & Erik (2010), and Budak & Koç (2011)].…”

Uromyces behenis (DC.) UNGER İÇIN YENI BIR KONAKÇI TÜR

“…The southern parts of Balkan Peninsula and southwest Asia are the two main centers for the genus (Greuter 1995). Silene is represented in Turkey by 31 sections and 138 species, of which 42% are endemic taxa (Genç et al 2007).…”

Silene demirizii sp. nov. and S.marschallii subsp. anamasi subsp. nov. (Caryophyllaceae) from Turkey

“…Since the publication of ‘Flora of Turkey’ in 1967, 29 new Silene taxa have been described from Turkey. Thus, the total number of Silene taxa in Turkey is 164 and the endemism percentage is approximately 48% (Coode and Cullen 1967, Davis et al 1988, Aytaç 1998, Tan and Vural 2000, Vural and Dönmez 2002, Duran and Menemen 2003, Aytaç and Duman 2004, Deniz and Düşen 2004, Özgökçe et al 2005, Bağcı et al 2007, Genç et al 2007, Bağcı 2008, Aksoy et al 2008, 2009, Tugay and Ertuğrul 2008, Kandemir et al 2009, Yıldız and Dadandı 2009). During the last decade, there has been an acceleration of newly published taxa from Turkey, not only in Silene but in many other genera, due to an increasing number of revision studies.…”