A new species of Viola (Violaceae) from Turkey

Abstract

A new species of Viola, V. kizildaghensis M. Dinç & S¸. Yi̇ldi̇ri̇mli̇, from Turkey is described and illustrated. It is found on the rocky slopes of Ki̇zi̇ldaǧ, Ki̇zi̇ldaǧ National Park, in the vilayet of Isparta, south‐west Turkey, at an elevation of 1350–1600 m. It belongs to Viola, subsection Viola, and is similar to the Lebanese endemic V. libanotica Boiss., distinguished by its lanceolate, cuneate based leaves, pinkish‐purple flowers with white throats, glabrous lateral petals, and peduncles bearing the mature fruit procumbent and pubescent. It is somewhat similar to another species from south‐west Turkey, V. sandrasea Melchior, that is endemic to Sandras Daǧ in the vilayet Muǧla; it is distinguished from this by the characters listed above, its pubescent leaves and peduncles, and its linear‐lanceolate to lanceolate stipules which have short, gland‐tipped fimbriae. © 2002 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2002, 138, 483–487.

A new species of Viola L. (Violaceae) from South Anatolia

“…& Quézel, V. bocquetiana Yıldırımlı, V. sandrasea Melchior and V. kizildaghensis M. Dinç & Ş. Yıldırımlı, are all relictual with narrow endemic or disjunct distributions and native to the high montane and alpine regions of Central Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East (Melchior, 1939; Contandriopoulos & Quézel, 1976; Yıldırımlı, 1994; Marcussen, 1998; Dinç & Yıldırımlı, 2002). Four of the 11 species, V. sandrasea, V. bocquetiana , V. kizildaghensis and V. isaurica are from Turkey (Melchior, 1939; Contandriopoulos & Quézel, 1976; Yıldırımlı, 1994; Dinç & Yıldırımlı, 2002), and they are known from their type collections, except V. isaurica, which grows on calcareous rocks in the mountainous region of Ermenek and its environment (Dinç, 2002). The new species is clearly similar to the series Eflagellatae species in Turkey.…”

“…Viola ser. Eflagellatae consists of four species in Turkey (Coode & Cullen, 1965; Davis et al ., 1988; Yıldırımlı, 2000; Dinç & Yıldırımlı, 2002).…”

“…Viola subsect. Viola series Eflagellatae and its close relatives in the series are all relictual with narrow endemic or disjunct distributions (Melchior, 1939; Contandriopoulos & Quézel, 1976; Yıldırımlı, 1994; Marcussen, 1998; Dinç & Yıldırımlı, 2002). Therefore, we collected flowering material of the same plant from the same locality in 2002.…”

Viola kouliana (Violaceae: section Sclerosium), a new species from India

“…In India, the genus is represented by 35 species and 16 species has been reported from Jammu and Kashmir (Banerjee and Pramanik 1983, Singh et al 2002). Numerous scientists have studied Viola in regions bordering India (Marcussen and Nordal 1998, 2008, Dinç and Yildirimli 2002, Dinç et al 2003, Huang 2003, Blaxland 2004, Zhou et al 2008). Saeidi Mehrvarz et al (2014) investigated pollen variation in parts of the genus Viola L.…”

Allozymic variation in the widespread and cultivated Viola odorata (Violaceae) in western Eurasia

“…Viola odorata has the chromosome number 2 n = 20 and belongs to section Viola (= Uncinatae Kuppfer, Scapigerae W.Becker p. p), a well‐characterized Eurasian group of approximately 25 species (Marcussen & Borgen, 2000; Dinç & Yıldırımlı, 2002; Dinç, Bagci & Yıldırımlı, 2003). Morphological and allozymic evidence suggests that its closest relatives are the two species V. pyrenaica Ram.…”