Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
7th Symposium on EuroAsian Biodiversity (SEAB) - 2024, Erzurum, Türkiye, 22 - 24 Ağustos 2024, ss.1
Cionura is a monotypic
genus represented by C. erecta which
has a wide range of distribution from southeastern Europe to the Mediterranean
regions and Afghanistan. The aim of the present study is to re-evaluate the
morphological features and the distribution of C. erecta in Türkiye. Morphological examinations were performed on
the samples kept in national/international herbaria and the specimens newly
collected from natural habitats of the genus. An extended description supported
by detailed morphological photographs, and a current distribution map for C. erecta in Türkiye were created. C. erecta is characterized by shrub or
semi-shrub twining stems, simple, opposite, ovate, and basally cordate or subcordate
leaves, white or cream-yellow flowers consisting of a typical gynostegial,
parted corona, and gynostegium with apically bifid stigma. In this study, C. erecta was examined morphologically
in detail, and its description was contributed. This research also supplied 147
new locality records for C. erecta in
addition to its knowledge in the Flora of Türkiye, and the number of known
localities from our country for the taxon was revised as 169. It is determined
that C. erecta has a wide
distribution in Türkiye, excluding northeastern Anatolia, in various habitats
such as beaches, Quercus sp. and Pinus sp. forest clearings, maquis
shrublands, roadsides, rocky and stony slopes, stream beds, and lakesides from
sea level to higher regions up to 2500 m.
Keywords: Cionura erecta, chorology, monotypic,
morphology.