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SOME RARE ENDEMICS OF BELBA�I&MAHA PLATEAUS
(ANTALYA - GAZ�PA�A) FROM SOUTH ANATOLIA
Ali KAYA 1 , Asuman EFE 1
1 Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Botany, �stanbul :
alikaya84@gmail.com ; aefe@istanbul.edu.tr
This research comprises Belba��&Maha Plateaus and their environs that takes place in
Gazipa�a district of Antalya. The research area is in the border of Sugözü and �ahinler
villages. It is located in a valley that is extending south–north direction between
Cula&Karasay mountains with Akçal� mountain and terminated with Gevne valley that feeds
the Göksu River. It is stated in C4 square, according to the P.H. Davis’s grid system for
Turkey. And it is situated in the Central Taurus Mountains as geographical and located at
Sub-Mediterrranean area which shows the transition properties of Mediterranean and Irano-
Turanian fitogeographic regions as fitogeographical.
This study is a part of “Flora of Belba�� & Maha Plateaus (Antalya-Gazipa�a)” project (I.U.
T-3668, 2008-2010). 1270 plant specimens were collected from the research area in different
vegetation periods from 2007 to 2009. Up to now, 430 samples have been idendified. As a
result of identification of the collected plant specimens, 238 taxa belonging to 116 genera and
62 families have been determined. Forty-eight of these taxa are endemic. The plant
specimens, which are collected from the area have been kept in the ISTO (Istanbul University
Faculty of Forestry Herbarium).
In this study, distribution of endemic taxa have been investigated and the statuses have been
evaluated according to the IUCN threat criteria. As a result of this study, many of endemics
are rare. Arnebia purpurea S. Erik & H. Sümbül, Cephalaria gazipashensis H. Sümbül, and
Onopordum bracteatum var. arachnoideum S. Erik & H. Sümbül are known only from
Belba�� and Maha Plateaus and Gevne valley.
In this investigation, which is also supported by the literature researching, has been intended
to emphasize the importance of the region and the plants that should be protected.
Keywords: Rare endemic, IUCN,Gazipa�a, Belba��&Maha Plateaus, Turkey
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