New record for the flora of Türkiye: Allium montelburzense R.M. Fritsch, Y. Salmaki & SH. Zarre Allium sect. Scorodon (Amaryllidaceae)

Year 2025, Volume: 55 Issue: 1, 140 - 147, 07.05.2025

Mehmet Fırat

https://doi.org/10.26650/IstanbulJPharm.2025.1509512

Abstract

Background and Aims: Allium montelburzense R.M. Fritsch, Y. Salmaki & SH. Zarre was introduced to the scientific world as a sect. Scorodon 2006 in Iran. Now it is given as a new record for the flora of Türkiye.

Methods: The specimens collected during the field studies carried out between July and September in the high mountainous regions of Hakkari and Van provinces between 1999 and 2023 were identified by comparison with the flora of the country and neighbouring countries.

Results: This species has been known from Iran until now, but for the first time a record is given from Türkiye. A detailed morphological picture, its photographs in its natural distribution area and the updated map of the distribution area are presented in the study.

Conclusion: In my 25 years of fieldwork and herbarium research, most of the specimens identified as Allium anacoleum Hand.-Mazz. have been misidentified (except the specimens from the type locality and from the vicinity of Elazığ). While writing about the flora of Türkiye, all of the high mountain specimens collected from Hakkari and Van are Allium montelburzense.

Keywords

Allium montelburzense , Hakkari , Van , New record , Türkiye

References

• Fırat, M. (2015). Allium gabardaghense (Amaryllidaceae), a new species from Şırnak, TurKey. Van, Türkiye: Weşanen Sîtav, google scholar
• Fırat, M. (2017). Allium hoshabicum a new species of A. sect. Codonoprasum (Amaryll-idaceae) from Van (Turkey). Pbytotaxa. 312(1): 129-134. https://doi.org/10.11646/ phytotaxa.312.1.12 google scholar
• Fırat, M. (2023). A new record for the flora of Turkey: Allium capitellatum (Amaryll-idaceae), and Allium calyanense is a synonym of Allium capitellatum. Acta Biologica Turcica, 36 (4): 1-15. google scholar
• Fırat, M. (2024a). Allium feqiyeteyranii a new species of Allium sect. Codonoprasum (Amaryllidaceae) from Van (Türkiye). Acta Biologica Turcica. 37(2): 1-12. google scholar
• Fırat, M. (2024b). Allium taiseba, a new species of Allium sect. Scorodon (Amarylli-daceae) from Van province (Turkey). Nordic Journal of Botany, 11: 1-12. https:// doi.org/10.1111/njb.04420 google scholar
• Fırat, M., Koyuncu, M. & Ekşi, G. (2018). Allium pervariensis, sect. Allium (Amarylli-daceae), a new species from Siirt Turkey. Plant Biosystems, 1: 1-6. https://doi. org/10.1080/11263504.2016.1271051 google scholar
• Friesen, N., Fritsch, R. M. & Blattner, F. R. (2006). Phylogeny and new infrageneric clas-sification of Allium (Alliaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA ITS sequences. Aliso, 22: 372-395. 10.5642/aliso.20062201.31 google scholar
• Fritsch, R. M., Salmaki, Y., Zarre, S. H. & Joharchi, M. (2006). The Genus Allium (Alliaceae) in Iran: Current State, New Taxa and New Records. Rostaniha, 7(2): 255-281. google scholar
• Friesen, N., Grützmacher, L., Skaptsov, M., Vesselova, P., Dorofeyev, V., Luferov, A. N., Turdumatova, N., Lazkov, G., Smirnov, S. V., Shmakov, A. I. & Hurka, H. (2022). Allium pallasii and A. caricifolium surprisingly diverse old steppe species, showing a clear geographical barrier in the area of Lake Zaysan. Plants, 111465: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11111465 google scholar
• Handel-Mazzetti, H. (1914). Pteridophyta und Anthophyta aus Mesopotamien und Kurdistan sowie Syrien und Prinkipo. In. Steindachener, F. (ed). Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums xxvııı. 17: Buchhandler der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Pp. 13-41. google scholar
• Herden, T., Hanelt, P. & Friesen, N. (2016). Phylogeny of Allium L. subgenus Anguinum (G. Don. ex W.D.J. Koch) N. Friesen (Amaryllidaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 95: 79-93. 10.1016/i.ympev.2015.11.004[edition no. 96] 514-524 pp. google scholar
• Koçyiğit, M., Eraslan, Z. B., Özhatay, N. & Kaya, E. (2023). Allium beypazariense (Amaryl-lidaceae), a new species from middle Anatolia (Türkiye), Phytotaxa, 630(1): 51-60. google scholar
• Koçyiğit, M., Ekşi, G., Bağ, E. & Aytaç, Z. (2024). Allium purpureotunicatum (Amaryl-lidaceae), a new species of sect. Scorodon from Turkey. Annales Botanici Fennici, 61 (1): 103-110. https://doi.org/10.5735/085.061.0115 google scholar
• Kollmann, F. (1984). Allium L. In: Davis P. H. (ed.) Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 8: Edinburgh University Press, pp 182-184. google scholar
• Koyuncu, M., Özhatay, N., Koçyiğit-Avcı, M. & Ekşi-Bona, G. (2023). Allium L. In: Güner, A., Kandemir, A., Menemen, Y., Yıldırım, H., Aslan, S., Çimen, A. Ö., Güner, I., Bona, G. E. ve Gökmen, F. Ş. (edlr.). Resimli Türkiye Florası 3b: ANG Vakfı Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi Yayınları. Pp. 66-530. google scholar
• Li, Q. Q., Zhou, S. D., He, X. J., Yu, Y., Zhang, Y. C. & Wei, X. Q. (2010). Phylogeny and biogeography of Allium (Anaryllidaceae: Allieae) based on nuclear ribosonal internal transcribed spacer and chloroplast rps16 sequences, focusing on the inclusion of species endenic to China. Annals of Botany, 106: 709-733. 10.1093/ aob/ncq177 google scholar
• Özhatay, N. & Tzanoudakis, D. (2000). Allium L. In: Güner A., Özhatay N., Ekin T. & Başer K. H. C. (eds.) Flora of Turkey and The East Aegean Islands vol. 11. Edinburgh University Press. Pp. 224-232. google scholar
• Wendelbo, P. (1971). Alliaceae L. In: Rechinger, K. H. (ed.) Flora Iranica 76. Akadenische Druck und Verlagsanstalt. Pp. 1-100. google scholar
• Wendelbo, P. (1985). Allium L. In: Townsend, C. C. & Guest, E. (ed.) Flora of Iraq vol. 8. Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Iraq. Pp. 137-177. google scholar
• Yıldırın, H., Özdöl, T. & Erden, S. (2024). Allium ahmet-tirasii (Anaryllidaceae), a new species fron Southern Anatolia (Türkiye). Phytotaxa, 644 (2): 102-112. google scholar
• https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.644.2. google scholar