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TAXONOMIC REMARKS ON EIGHT ALLIUM TAXA
(SECT. CODONOPRASUM) FROM SOUTH ANATOLIA
Mine KOÇY���T, Neriman ÖZHATAY
Istanbul University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Departrment of Pharmaceutical Botany, Istanbul, Turkey
minekocyigit@hotmail.com, nozhatay@istanbul.edu.tr
The genus Allium L. is represented by about 185 taxa grouped under 14 sections in Turkey.
The Sect. Codonoprasum is one of the most difficult section characterized by long spatha
with unequal 2-valves. This section consists of 44 taxa of which 18 are endemics to the
country. The Allium genus Sect. Codonoprasum in Turkey carried out by Mine Koçyi�it as
Phd study. The result of this project, two new records (A. dentiferum Webb & Berthel. and A.
dodocanesi Karavokyrou&Tzanoudakis) and three new species added to the Flora of Turkey
and the number of the taxa of Sect. Codonoprasum increased to 49 of which 21 endemics. In
this poster presentation 8 taxa distributed in Southern Anatolia will be demonstrated:
A. dentiferum Webb & Berthel. (new record), A. deciidum Özhatay & Kollmann subsp.
deciduum (endemic), A. deciidum subsp. retrorsum Özhatay & Kollmann (endemic), A.
dodocanesi Karavokyrou&Tzanoudakis (new record), A. bassitense Thieb., A. pseudoflavum
Vved., A. pallens L., A. glumaceum Boiss. (endemic)
Keywords: Allium, Sect. Codonoprasum, South Anatolia, Turkey.
POLYPHYLY OF VERONICA ORIENTALIS USING NUCLEAR AND
PLASTID DNA AND MORPHOLOGICAL DATA
Mubo A. SONIBARE 1 , Metin ARMAGAN 2 Dirk C. ALBACH 3
1 Department of Phamarcognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
sonibareadeola@yahoo.com
2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Yüzüncü Yil University, Van, Turkey
metinarmagan@gmail.com
3 Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky-University, Oldenburg, Germany
dirk.albach@uni-oldenburg.de
Amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLP) and plastid markers were used in
conjunction with 53 morphological characters to study relationship among 28 accessions of
Veronica orientalis and closely related species of Veronica occurring in Turkey and adjacent
areas of Georgia and Armenia. 330 fragments were generated and analyzed using Principal
Coordinate Analysis (PCoA), Neighbour-joining (NJ) as well as Neighbour-Net (NN)
analyses and produced two major groups. Morphological characterization utilizing the
Principal Component Analysis (PCoA) recognizes three morpho-groups, most of which
correspond to the groups delimited by the AFLP fingerprint data. In contrast, plastid DNA
sequences generated a largely incongruent phylogeny for the samples. Finally, neither the
AFLP nor the plastid DNA results are matching geographic groups. The results highlight the
heterogeneity of V. orientalis and the necessity to study variation in this superspecies in
conjunction with related species such as V. multifida, V. fushii, V. kurdica and V. oltensis.
Additional information necessary is ploidy level, which is so far lacking for most populations.
Keywords: AFLP, cpDNA, morphometrics, Veronica orientalis
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