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Oral Lectures
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REVISION OF THE GENUS SALVIA L. (LABIATAE) IN TURKEY
Ferhat CELEP 1 , Ahmet KAHRAMAN 1 , Safi BAGHERPOUR 1 , Ersin KARABACAK 2 , Birol
BA�ER 3 , Musa DO�AN 1 , Galip AKAYDIN 4 Sevil PEHL�VAN 3 , �smet UYSAL 2
1 Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey ferhat_celep@hotmail.com
2 Department of Biology, Çanakkale 18 Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey
3 Department of Biology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
4 Department of Biology Education, Hacettepe Universiy, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
Salvia L., the largest genus of Labiatae, represents an enormous cosmopolitan assemblage of
nearly 1000 species mainly distributed in Central and South America (500 spp.), Central Asia/
Mediterranean (250 spp.) and Eastern Asia (90 spp.). The last comprehensive taxonomic
treatment of Salvia in Turkey was made by Hedge, who recognized 87 species in the country.
Since then, nine species have been added to the genus in Tukey as new species or new records.
As well as, two synonyms are evaluated as valid species. The number of species known from
Turkey is now reached to 97, demonstrating that Turkey is a major centre of diversity for the
genus in Asia. Since 2005, as a part of a revision of the genus Salvia L. in Turkey, the authors
have carried out extensive field studies and collected a large number of specimens to carry out a
taxonomic revision of Salvia and solve existing taxonomic problems in Turkey, to determine
distribution and the threat categories of the taxa,to construct a new infrageneric grouping, to
determine ecological and phytogeographical properties of the taxa, to carry out some
morphological, anatomical and palynological assesements for taxonomic reason and to
understand the evolution of taxa. The objectives of this study are to give an outline of taxonomy,
ecology, anatomy and micromorphology of the genus.
Keywords: Salvia, revision, morphology, micromorphology, Turkey.�
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