A new Teucrium L. (Lamiaceae) Species from South Anatolia (Turkey)

Abstract

In this study,a member of sect. Teucrium,hitherto undescribed as a new species,was analyzed based onmorphological andmicromorphologicalfeatures and molecular findings. The closest species of the new species were defined according to leaf morphology via morphological characters. Leaf, stem and nutlet trichome types were obtained and compared with resembling species. Moreover, two different DNA region sequences were used to evaluate its proper phylogenetic position in the section.The new species was described as Teucrium turcicumÇeçen&Özcanbased on theresults of using different approaches. According to our observations, flower color, leaf structure and shape were the main distinctive morphological characters, leaf and nutlet trichomes were separativeand informative, and nrITS DNA data hadmore informative charactersthan chloroplast DNA region data (trnL-F and rpl32)to determine phylogenetic relationship of the new species and its close relatives in sect. Teucrium.

Davda Dağı Florası (Karaman / Türkiye)

“…Adequate research has been made to considering the plant diversity around the Karaman Province and Davda Mountain (Ünal, 1987;Ketenoğlu and Serin, 1988;Ünal and Ocakverdi, 1991;Akman et al, 1996;Serin, 1996;Bağcı et al, 1996;Koçak and Özhatay, 2000;Sağlam and Ünal, 2007;Ünal and Sağlam, 2008a,b;Geven et al, 2010;Koçak, 2010-2011;Yücel et al, 2011;Koçak and Özhatay, 2013;Geven et al 2015;Akdağ and Doğu, 2016;Bağcı et al, 2016;Ertuğrul and This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Hamzaoğlu et al, 2022). In addition, new taxa have also been published from these locations in recent years (Aytaç et al, 2020;Celep et al, 2020;Çeçen et al, 2015Dinç and Bağcı, 2018;Doğru -Koca et al, 2016;Eker and Tekşen, 2017;Ulukuş and Tugay, 2018;Şirin et al, 2019Dinç and Doğu, 2020;Çeçen and Özcan, 2021;Eker and Sağıroğlu, 2021). According to Ertuğrul and Tugay (2018), 2145 taxa are distributed in the Karaman province, 543 are endemic and 2 of them rare taxa.…”