Cousinia brevicaulis sp. nov. (sect. Lasiandra) for the flora of Iran

Abstract

Cousinia brevicaulis is described and illustrated as a new species from eastern Iran. This species belongs to the C. sect. Lasiandra Bunge as defined by hairy anther tube, yellow, pale yellow or rarely milky flowers, monocarpic growth form and corymbose branching of stem. It is easily distinguished from other species of the section by its very short‐stemmed habit. The new species is distributed in the same region as other species of C. sect. Lasiandra.

Two new species of genus Cousinia (Asteraceae, Cardueae) from W and NE Iran

“…Based on Flora Iranica (Rechinger, 1972(Rechinger, , 1979, there are about 220 taxa for the flora of Iran. In recent years many species described or recorded for the first time for the flora of Iran (Tscherneva et al, 2005;Djavadi & Attar, 2006;Attar et al, 2007Attar et al, , 2016Assadi, 2009Assadi, , 2010Assadi, , 2011Attar & Mirtadzadini, 2009;Attar & Djavadi, 2010;Mehregan & Assadi, 2010;Attar, 2011;Mirtadzadini & Attar, 2014;Rastegar et al, 2018;Attar & Amini Rad, 2019).…”

The pros and cons of being broad: recent and future progress of Nordic Journal of Botany

“…China (among many others Liu et al , Wang et al , Zhou et al ), India (among many others Chorghe et al , Gogoi and Borah ), Thailand (Kidyoo ) and Vietnam (Averyanov et al ) in Asia, Ukraine and Spain in Europe (Chkalov , Blanca et al ), Tanzania, South Africa and Madagascar in Africa (Cupido , Stone , Byng ), Brazil (Wilmot‐Dear et al , Freitas et al ) and Guatemala (Archila et al ) in South America, and Mexico in North America (González‐Gallegos and Castro‐Castro , Vázquez‐García et al ). Likewise, our taxonomic contributions cover all major vascular plant groups from orchids (Hall et al , Sanguinetti , Szlachetko and Kolanowska , Kumar et al ) and bamboos (Nguyen and Tran ) to Asteraceae (Øllgaard , Attar et al , Negaresh and Rahiminejad , Nilsson and Tyler ). Mycology and lichenology also has a natural position in our content, with important recent contributions such as those by Ekman (), Jüriado et al (, ), Hestmark (), Liu and He () and Spirin et al ().…”