Onosma anatolica, a new species of Boraginaceae from Turkey

Abstract

Onosma anatolica Binzet, is described and illustrated as a new species from Niğde province in southern Anatolia, Turkey. It belongs to sect. Onosma L. subsect. Asterotricha (Boiss.) Gürke. The new species is closely related to Onosma subulifolia Riedl from which it is distinguished. Onosma anatolica is readily distinguished from Onosma subulifolia by its sterile shoots, the green-grey stem indumentum, longer bracts, yellow and puberulous petals. The IUCN threat category of Onosma anatolica is determined as “CR (Critically Endangered)”. A distribution map and anidentification key for Onosma anatolica and Onosma subulifolia supplement the study.

Two new species and a new record for Onosma L. (Boraginaceae) from northwestern Iran

“…Heteotricha there are both simple setae and asterosetae on the basal leaves of the same plant. (Boissier, 1879; Peruzzi et al, 2004; Peruzzi and Passalacqua, 2008; Koyuncu et al, 2013; Mehrabian et al, 2013; Binzet, 2016a, b, Cecchi et al, 2016). In general, the terminology of the structure of the indumentum, and phytogeographical terms are described as follows: Tubercle: a prominent multicellular structure on the leaf surface in Onosma with bristles arising from it.…”

“…The new taxa were assessed based on the diagnostic keys of Flora Iranica (Riedl, 1967), Flora of Iran (Khatamsaz, 2002), Flora of Turkey (Riedl, 1979), Flora of USSR (Popov, 1953), Boissier (1879), Johnston (1954), Post (1966), Polunin (1969), Ball (1972) and Nasir & Ali (1979). Several newly introduced taxa of Onosma were evaluated and compared with our new taxa (see: Teppner, 1980; Ghahreman and Attar, 1996; Attar and Joharchi, 2006; Attar and Hamzehee, 2007; Binzet and Orcan, 2007; Kandemir and Türkemen, 2010; Aytac and Türkmen, 2011; Koyuncu et al, 2013; Mehrabian et al, 2013; Ahmad, 2014; Binzet, 2016 a, b; Cecchi et al, 2016; Binzet and Eren, 2018; Mehrabian and Amini Rad, 2018; Mehrabian and Mozaffarian, 2018; Dehshiri, 2018; He et al, 2018, 2020). Additionally, more than 2500 accessions of Onosma specimens, and images of type specimens in several herbaria of Iran (HSBU!, TARI!, IRAN!)…”

Onosma fuyunensis (Boraginaceae), a new species from Xinjiang, China

“…Onosma L. (Boraginaceae-Lithospermeae), one of the largest genera in Boraginaceae, is primarily distributed in the temperate zones of the Old-World, with the main center of diversity in the Irano-Turanian region (Weigend et al 2016). In recent years, several new species of Onosma have been described (Riedl et al 2004, Binzet and Orcan 2007, Kandemir and Turkmen 2010, Aytac and Turkmen 2011, Almasi and Ranjbar 2015, Tarimcilar et al 2015, Binzet 2016a, Binzet 2016b, Cecchi et al 2016, Binzet and Eren 2018, Dehshiri 2018, He et al 2018, Mehrabian and Mozaffarian 2018, Mehrabian and Rad 2018, which increases the total number of Onosma species to nearly 240. The northeastern region of the geographic distribution of the genus ranges from Turkestan to Altai (Johnston 1951), with the Altai Mountains running through Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan.…”

Volatile Components of Two Onosma Tokat Province of Turkey

“…The genus Onosma L. (Boraginaceae) is represented in Turkey by 105 species (110 taxa), 53 of them and one variety are endemic for Turkey (Riedl, 1978;Güner et al, 2012;Binzet, 2016). In traditional medicine, some species of Onosma are used as herbs, against burns, wounds and ailments (Khajuria and Jain, 1993;Özgen et al, 2003).…”