The Geophytes of Sakarya City

Year 2020, , 991 - 1007, 01.10.2020

Mehmet Sağıroğlu

https://doi.org/10.16984/saufenbilder.717563

Cited By: 3

Abstract

Sakarya city is within the Europe-Siberia phytogeographic region in Turkey. The effect of the Black Sea climate is usually seen in the study area. Black sea climate is effective in the northern part, while the Mediterranean climate is generally dominat in the South. In the area under the influence of the Mediterranean climate, there is a vegetation where the maquis-pseudomaquis communities are seen. The main research area of this study is chosen to be the geophyte plants collected in the city of Sakarya, Turkey. 1051 plant specimens were collected during field studies between 2009-2020. From the plant collection, 220 taxa and 80 genus belonging to 29 families have been identified. 18 of these taxa, are endemic. Of the total taxa in the area are 40 elements Euro-Sibirian, 41 widespread, 79 Mediterrenian, 7 Iranian-Turan, 16 Euxine, 34 phytogeographically unknown, 1 Hyrcano, 1 Hyrcano-Euxine, 1 North Americana elements.

Keywords

Geophyte, Endemic, Sakarya, Turkey

References

• S.C. Demir, İ. Eker. Petaloid Monocotyledonous Flora Of Bolu Province, İncluding Annotations On Critical Petaloid Geophytes Of Turkey. Pegem Akademi, Ankara, 2015.
• P.H. Davıs, ‘Flora Of Turkey And The East Aegean Islands’, Edinburgh, A.Univ. Press., Edinburgh, vol.1-9, 1965-1985.
• P.H. Davıs, R.R. Mill, K. Tan, ‘Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands’, Edinburgh Univ. Press., Edinburgh, vol. 10, 1988.
• A. Güner, N. Özhatay, T. Ekim, K.H.C. Başer, ‘Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands’, (supple. 2), Edinburgh Univ. Press., Edinburgh, vol. 11, 2000.
• A. Güner, B. Akyıldırım, M.F. Alkayış, B. Çıngay, S.S. Kanoğlu, A.M. Özkan, M. Öztekin, ve G.N. Tuğ, Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, 2012.
• T. Ekim, M. Koyuncu, M. Vural, H. Duman, Z. Aytaç, N. Adıgüzel, Türkiye Bitkileri Kırmızı Kitabı. Türkiye Tabiatını Koruma Derneği, Van 100. Yıl Üniv., Ankara, 2000.
• IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee, Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 13. Prepared by the Standards and Petitions Subcommittee. <http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf>, 2017.
• O. Koyuncu, Ö.K. Yaylacı, Ö Derviş, S. Tokur, Vascular Plant Diversity in Geyve Gorge (Sakarya/Turkey) and its Environs. Biological Diversity and Conservation, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 98-122, 2012.
• D. Karaduman, Acarlar Longozu (Sakarya) Florası. Sakarya Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitütüsü Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Haziran, Sakarya.2019.
• Y. Değerli, Ö. Varol, Geophytes of Kızıldağ, Masa Mountain and Yılanlı Mountain (Muğla/Turkey). Biological Diversity and Conservation, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 71-75, 2018.
• A. Öz, H. Akan, The geophyte flora of Dalaman and Ortaca districts of Muğla/Turkey province. Biological Diversity and Conservation, vol. 12, no.1, pp. 39-49, 2019.
• M. Sağıroğlu, E. Olgaç B. Ertürk, M. Turna, An Ethnobotanical Survey from Şile (İstanbul) and Karasu ( Sakarya). Ot Sistematik Dergisi, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 93-104, 2012.
• M. Sağıroğlu, S.T. Köseoğlu, M. Turna, Medicinal Plants in Flora of Ikramiye Sapanca-Sakarya-Türkiye).Sakarya University Journal of Science, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 527-539, 2017.
• J. Rukšāns, Seven new Corcuses from the Balkans and Turkey, Alpine Garden Society, pp. 13-21, June, 2013.
• A. Demir, Medical Resource Value Appraisal for Leucojum aestivum in Turkey. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 448-451, 2014