2025/10/13 by Ömer Çeçen, Mehmet Maruf Balos, Hasan Yıldırım · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Engineering · #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Phytochemistry and Biological Activities #Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research
paper · doi:10.5735/085.062.0144
openalex publication_date 2025/10/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Here we describe Biarum gulsenianum Yıldırım, Çeçen & Balos (Araceae), a new species from Karaman Province in central Turkey. Although morphologically close to B. rifatii, it differs by having a shorter and narrower, cylindrical-oblong to oblong-ovoid (vs. globose-oblong) spathe tube, the inner surface of which ranges from whitish to greenish cream (vs. uniformly shiny reddish purple). The appendix is also distinctly shorter, and B. gulsenianum bears 2–3 rows of staminodes (absent in B. rifatii). Both species are unusual within the genus, as they flower in summer rather than in autumn.