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Issue: Vol. 574 No. 1: 25 November 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-11-25
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.7
Page range: 99-104
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 2

Acantholimon assadii (Plumbaginaceae), a new species from flora of Iran

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, 76169-14111, P.O. Box: 76169-133.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, 76169-14111, P.O. Box: 76169-133.
Acantholimon sect. Acantholimon Irano-Turanian region endemism mountain flora Eudicots

Abstract

A new species, Acantholimon assadii from mountainous slopes of N of Kerman, Zarend, Kerman Province, south-east of Iran is here described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically distinguished from the other species of Acantholimon sect. Acantholimon by short spike-like inflorescence, length and width of bract and bracteoles, shape of bract and bracteoles, color of calyx and corolla.

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