“…Since the last revision by Cullen (1984) for the Flora of Turkey, nu-merous new taxa, records and combinations of Ornithogalum have been introduced from Turkey (e.g. Davis et al 1988, Özhatay 2000, Düşen and Sümbül 2002, 2003, Düşen and Deniz 2005, Uysal et al 2005, Özhatay and Kültür 2006, Bağcı et al 2009, Özhatay et al 2009, Yıl dı-rımlı 2009, Koca and Yıldırımlı 2010, Özhatay et al 2011, Mutlu and Karakuş 2012. A total of 61 species of the genus Ornithogalum are distributed in Turkey, 31 of them endemic to the country (Uysal 2012).…”