Biarum gulsenianum (Araceae), a New Species from Central Turkey
Articles > Article · 2025
Authors: Ömer Çeçen, Mehmet Maruf Balos, Hasan YILDIRIM
Annales Botanici Fennici, International, WoS, 2025, vol 62
DOI: 10.5735/085.062.0144
Summary
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.