A New Record for the Flora of Turkey: Cirsium candelabrum Griseb. (Cirsium Sect. Cirsium, Asteraceae, Cynareae)

Authors : Bayram YILDIZ, Tuncay DİRMENCİ, Turan ARABACI

Pages : 47-51

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The genus Cirsium Mill. is one of the largest genera in Asteraceae. It contains about 250 species, distributed in Europe, North Africa, eastern, central, and south-west Asia, and North and Central America insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Charadze, 1963; Davis & Parris, 1975; Petrak, 1979);. In Turkey 58 species insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(72 taxa); occur, distributed mainly in eastern and northeastern Anatolia, with the main centre of diversity in the Kaçkar Mountains. Of the 72 taxa, 24 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(33%); are endemic to Turkey. Seven species doubtfully recorded or imperfectly known were included in the Flora of Turkey by Davis and Parris insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1975);. C. eriophorum insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(L.); Scop., one of the doubtfully recorded taxa, was found in Uludağ, Bursa province insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Daşkın et al., 2006);. Cirsium spp. found in Turkey are classified in 3 sections: sect. Epitrachys DC. insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(41 spp.);, sect. Cirsium insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(16 spp.);, and sect. Cephalonoplos insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Neck.); DC. insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1 sp.); insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Davis & Parris, 1975; Davis et al., 1988; Güner et al., 2000);. 
Keywords : Compositae, new record, Thrace