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AN UNEXPECTED NEW TAXON OF SALSOLA (CHENOPODIACEAE) FROM TURKEY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2003

H. FREITAG  and
H. DUMAN
H. FREITAG
Affiliation:
Morphologie und Systematik der Pflanzen, Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Kassel, D-34132 Kassel, Germany
H. DUMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Gazi University, 06500 Ankara, Turkey
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Abstract

Salsola cyrenaica subsp. antalyensis (Chenopodiaceae) from the S Anatolian coast near Finike is illustrated and described as a new subspecies. Its anatomy, relationships, ecology and phytogeography are discussed. The new subspecies differs from subsp. cyrenaica by the reduced number of flowers per leaf axil, very dense axillary hairs, the smaller size of most floral organs, mostly 3 instead of 2 stigmas and 5 not 3 wings on the fruit. The new taxon grows in a narrow coastal strip of c.2km only, in open dwarf-shrub communities on limestone rocks from sea level to c.40m. It is the first representative of the S. longifolia group, sect. Coccosalsola, from Turkey and from the northern shores of the Mediterranean.

Keywords

Chenopodiaceaecoastal halophytesnew subspeciesSalsola longifolia groupSalsola sect. Coccosalsola
Type
Research Article
Information
Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , November 2000 , pp. 339 - 348
Copyright
© 2000 Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

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