The genus Scorzonera L. (Asteraceae), with about 160 species belonging to the subtribe Scorzonerinae Dumort. of the tribe Cichorieae, is widespread in the more arid regions of Eurasia and northern Africa (Bremer and Anderberg, 1994;Nazarova, 1997).After the genus Scorzonera s.str. was revised by Chamberlain (1975) for the Flora of Turkey, many new species have been recorded from Turkey. The classification of the genus has been highly controversial (Nazarova, 1997;Mavrodiev et al., 2004), and because of this different taxonomic treatments have been used in the floras. Starting with De Candolle (1805), frequently Scorzonera species with a conspicuous cylindric carpopodium were placed under a separate genus,