A new species of Verbascum (Scrophulariacae) from western Turkey

ABSTRACT

A new species of the genus Verbascum (sect. Bothrospermae) is described and illustrated from Turkey. This species has been collected from Orhaneli region (Bursa Province) in West Anatolia. Verbascum ekicii sp. nov. is morphologically similar to V. latisepalum and V. alyssifolium from which it differs mainly in basal leaves, corolla, filaments and capsule features. In this study, comprehensive descriptions, ecology, conservation status, a distribution map, detailed illustrations, photographs of habitus, pollen morphology and comparison of the new species and the closely related species are given.

KEYWORDS:

• New species
• plant taxonomy
• palynology
• Verbascum
• Turkey

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the curators of herbaria ANK, BM, E, G, GAZI, HUB, ISTE, K, P, W and WU who allowed us to study their Verbascum material. Also, we thank Fatma Şen for the illustrations. We wish to thank TANAP Natural Gas Transmission Company and ÇINAR Engineering Consulting Inc. for financial support.

Author contributions

Hayri Duman: collection and identification of samples.

Mehmet Erkan Uzunhisarcıklı: collection and identification of samples; writing of article.

Funda Özbek: pollen morphological analysis; writing of article.

Disclosure statement

No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the TANAP Natural Gas Transmission Company and ÇINAR Engineering Consulting Inc.