Two new species of Centaurea (Asteraceae) from Turkey

Abstract

Turkey is one of the main centres of diversity for the genus Centaurea (Wagenitz 1986). In the Flora of Turkey, 172 species plus six imperfectly known species of Centaurea were accepted (Wagenitz 1975). Since then six new species have been described from Turkey: Centaurea mykalea Hub.-Mor., C. iconiensis Hub.-Mor., C. cariensiformis Hub.-Mor., C. nydeggeri Hub.Mor., C. yozgatensis Wagenitz, and C. hadimensis Wagenitz, K. Ertuârul & H. Dural (Davis et al. 1988, Wagenitz & Hellwig 1996, Wagenitz et al. 1998). One species (C. amplifolia Boiss. & Heldr.) was added as a new record for Turkey by Davis et al. (1988). In this paper, we describe two new species, after which the total number of Centaurea species known from Turkey raises to 187.