“…Therefore, it can play a significant role, particularly in taxonomically complicated species or genera (Kashmenskaya and Polyakov, 2008). In genus Dianthus, the basic chromosome number is x = 15 (Carolin, 1957) and the diploid chromosome number of many taxa is 2n = 30 (Darlington and Wylie, 1956;Sünter, 1979;Magulaev, 1982;Zhang, 1992;Runemark, 1996;Martin et al, 2009;Şahin et al, 2016;Altay et al, 2017;Ahıskalı et al, 2020).…”