A new species of Ebenus, Ebenus zekiyeae which had been recently discovered in Erzurum province by Assoc. Prof Hasan Yıldırım & recognized by Prof. Zeki Aytaç has been published. The Ebenus genus which is centered in Anatolia contains 13 species plus the new one, of which all are endemics. There are only six spp outside Turkey. The article can be downloaded HERE.
A new species to Science, “Peucedanum guvenianum, Yıldırım & H.Duman” has been published recently. We congratulate both of authors. The article can be downloaded here.
The pleasure of Prof. Ahmet Duran, one of the Scientists whom we proud of, can be seen while he confirmed that the plant belongs to Apiaceae which has been suspected by Mehmet Tosunoğlu since 2014, a veteran member of the "Flora" group, is happened to be a "new species to Science". Bolu, October 2017. We look forward for the paper. We congratulate both of them heartily.
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Turkey has a great botanical richness with more than 9600 plant species. This number approaches to 12,000 together with the subspecies and varieties. All information about plants of Turkey has been gathered in "Flora of Turkey and East Aegean Islands", Davis, 1984, Vol. I-IX, along with lots of studies which have been done by Turkish botanists (Vol: X & XI). A new taxon is being discovered in Turkey every five and a half days!
This website has been constructed to gather as much information as possible about native plants of Turkey and encourage the non-scientists to be aware of and/or identify the plants in the field, though it is not so easy. We hope this site fills the visual and informational gap regarding our flowering plants.
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