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Abstract
A new species, Bellevalia juliana Bareka, Turland & Kamari (Asparagaceae) is described from E Kriti (Greece) and compared with other related taxa from Greece and the Mediterranean area. It is a member of B. sect. Bellevalia and a karyological study revealed a hexaploid karyotype with 2n = 6x = 24 chromosomes, illustrated here. The conservation status of the new species is assessed as Vulnerable (VU), according to IUCN criteria.
Acknowledgements
We thank Ms Julia Jones FLS and Dr Rosemary John for bringing the new species of Bellevalia to our attention. We also thank Prof. Emeritus Dimitrios Phitos for his help with the Latin diagnosis and for useful discussion and Ms Sofia Samaropoulou for her help with the chromosome preparations.
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Funding
We thank the National Geographic Society for supporting the research project “Human recreation versus plant diversity on maritime sands in Crete” [grant number 8573-08], which enabled the authors to conduct field work in Kriti in March–April 2009.