A new species of Matthiola (Brassicaceae, Anchonieae) from Iran

Matthiola iranica sp. nov. as a new species, is here described and illustrated from the Zanjan Province, NW of Iran. Taxonomic comments on the new species are given. Its morphological characteristics is compared with its presumed closest relative, M. farinosa and geographical distribution of both species is mapped. These two species differ by characters of leaves, inflorescences, flowers, fruits, and seeds. Matthiola iranica is endemic to the northern-west of Iran.

Euphorbia mongoliensis (Euphorbiaceae), a new species from Inner Mongolia, China

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.501.1.6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 501 (1) ◽

pp. 151-161

Author(s):

ER-HUAN ZANG ◽

MING-XU ZHANG ◽

WEN-LE WANG ◽

CHUN-HONG ZHANG ◽

MIN-HUI LI

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Inner Mongolia ◽

Pollen Morphology ◽

Euphorbia Esula ◽

Morphological Data ◽

New Taxon ◽

Flora Of China ◽

In May 2020, a new taxon of Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae was collected from a dry hillside of Dongsheng District, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. The morphological characteristics of the specimens analyzed differ from those of the known Euphorbia species from this region; therefore, we suspected this may be a new species, and we set to analyze the ITS2 sequences of some Euphorbia species. The results show that the new taxon belongs to the sect. Esula of Euphorbia subg. Esula. It is similar to Euphorbia esula (description from Flora of China) but does not belong to the same species. Concomitantly, plant morphological data and pollen morphology results show significant differences between the new taxon, E. esula and E. caesia, a finding that supports the delimitation of this new taxon, which is named Euphorbia mongoliensis in accordance with its geographical distribution.

Manihot takape sp. nov. (Euphorbiaceae), a new tuberous subshrub from the Paraguayan Chaco

PhytoKeys ◽

10.3897/phytokeys.103.26307 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 103 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Juana De Egea Elsam ◽

María del Carmen Peña-Chocarro ◽

Fátima Mereles ◽

Gloria Céspedes

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Wild Crop Relatives ◽

A New Species ◽

Crop Relatives

Manihottakape De Egea & Peña-Chocarro, sp. nov. is described and illustrated as a new species from the Paraguayan Chaco. It was collected while carrying out fieldwork related to the study of the most important Wild Crop Relatives of the country’s flora. Morphological characteristics that differentiate this species from closely related taxa, as well as its habitat, geographical distribution and conservation status are provided.

Leptochelia Vatulelensis (Crustacea: Tanaidacea), A New Species From Anchialine Caves of the South-Western Pacific

Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” ◽

10.2478/v10191-011-0022-2 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 351-363

Author(s):

Modest Guţu ◽

Thomas Iliffe

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Caledonia ◽

Morphological Features ◽

Western Pacific ◽

Small Islands ◽

The South ◽

Anchialine Caves ◽

Leptochelia Vatulelensis(Crustacea: Tanaidacea), A New Species From Anchialine Caves of the South-Western PacificLeptochelia vatulelensisn. sp., discovered on the small islands of Vatulele (Fijian group) and Ouvéa (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia), is described and illustrated. The new species is distinguished from the others of the"Leptochelia-dubiagroup" (to which it is generally similar) by the following combination of morphological characteristics: (1) the presence of three to four distal setae on the maxilliped basis; (2) merus of pereopods III and IV with only a distosternal seta; (3) endopod of the uropods formed of four (rarely three) articles; (4) males with two (sometimes three) relatively short aesthetascs on the first five articles of the antennular flagellum; (5) male cheliped with a diminished dimorphism; (6) males with a vertical comb-row of setae on the cheliped propodus. Although it inhabits inland, anchialine caves, the new species lacks morphological features that are characteristic of some cave species.

Stachys Ahmet-Savranii DoğU and BAğCI (Lamiaceae), a New Species From South Anatolia, Turkey

Bangladesh Journal of Botany ◽

10.3329/bjb.v50i2.54088 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 319-326

Author(s):

Süleyman Doğu ◽

Yavuz Bağci

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

Calyx Tube ◽

Stachys ahmet-savranii Doğu & Bağcı sp. nov. (Lamiaceae) from the Niğde (C5 Niğde, Turkey) is described and illustrated. It exhibits general features of the section Infrarosularis. It is closely related to Stachys citrina Boiss. & Heldr. but differs by its slender and unbranched stem; leaves structure; floral leaves equalling or longer than verticillasters; verticillester with 8 - 12 flowered and corolla 10 - 18 mm; Bracteoles reaching nearly middle of calyx tube. Diagnostic morphological characters are discussed. The geographical distribution of the new species is mapped. Notes are also presented on its ecology, biogeography and conservation status. Bangladesh J. Bot. 50(2): 319-326, 2021 (June)

Fritillaria arsusiana (Lilieae, Liliaceae), a new species from southern Anatolia

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.502.2.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 502 (2) ◽

pp. 149-159

Author(s):

HASAN YILDIRIM ◽

MEHTAP TEKŞEN

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Related Species ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Flower Colour ◽

Identification Key ◽

Critically Endangered ◽

Diagnostic Characters ◽

A New Species ◽

Shape And Size

In this study, Fritillaria arsusiana (Liliaceae) is described and illustrated as a new species from Hatay province in southern Anatolia, Turkey. It is related to F. amana and F. hermonis by habitus features and broadly campanulate flowers, but differs mainly by its bulb shape and size, smaller leaf and flower features, and flower colour. It has also been morphologically compared with F. wendelboi, F. pinardii, and F. latakiensis. The detailed description, diagnostic characters, original photographs, geographical distribution, habitat and phenology, etymology, conservation status, and identification key of the new and the related species are presented in this study. IUCN conservation status of F. arsusiana is suggested as Critically Endangered (CR).

Prosopanche cocuccii (Hydnoraceae): a new species from Southern Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.521.3.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 521 (3) ◽

pp. 177-192

Author(s):

JORDANO D. TAVARES DE CARVALHO ◽

CATARINE MARKUS ◽

ALDO MEROTTO JUNIOR ◽

RENATO A. ZÁCHIA ◽

MARILIA SCHUCH ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Nicotiana Tabacum ◽

Host Plant ◽

Southern Brazil ◽

Habitat Ecology ◽

Single Host ◽

Flower Organs ◽

General Size ◽

Prosopanche cocuccii is described as a new species from Southern Brazil. It resembles P. bonacinae due to the trigonous rhizome and by the general size of the flower organs. Nevertheless, P. cocuccii is distinguished by the main floral morphological characteristics used to differentiate species. In addition, the new species presents some rare characters for the genus, such as a highly branched rhizome and flowers usually grouped in fascicles. We provide a description, illustrations, field photographs, morphological details under the stereomicroscope, and comments on habitat, ecology, distribution, and conservation of the new species, as well as an updated key for the genus Prosopanche. In addition, we identified that P. cocuccii produces a large number of rhizomes and fruits for each single host specimen of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), which resulted in a decrease in height and growth of its only known host plant.

Stachys semsurensis (Lamiaceae), a new species from Adıyaman province (Turkey) belonging to section Infrarosularis

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.511.3.6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 511 (3) ◽

Author(s):

MEHMET FIRAT

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Habitat Structure ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Morphological Features ◽

Point Of View ◽

Distribution Map ◽

Comprehensive Description ◽

Glandular Hairs ◽

A new species, Stachys semsurensis (sect. Infrarosularis), is described and illustrated from Adıyaman province, Turkey. From the morphological point of view, it appears to be similar to Stachys cataonica, but it differs in several morphological features including densely covered with short stalked to subsessile glandular hairs in flowering stems, verticillasters congested into ± globose head, calyx teeth lanceolate-subulate, corolla white, tube exserted and nutlets obovoid, greyish-brown, reticulate. A comprehensive description of the new species is provided, including detailed photographs, geographical distribution map, habitat structure and ecology, vernacular name and IUCN conservation status.

Muscari inundatum (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new species from southern Anatolia

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.484.2.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 484 (2) ◽

pp. 181-194

Author(s):

İSMAİL EKER ◽

HASAN YILDIRIM

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Identification Key ◽

Conservation Assessment ◽

Comprehensive Description ◽

Diagnostic Characters ◽

Original Photographs ◽

A new species, Muscari inundatum (Asparagaceae) from Turkey, is described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to M. neglectum and M. adilii, but differs mainly by its shouldered fertile flowers with erect to slightly recurved lobes at maturity. In this study, a comprehensive description, diagnostic characters, original photographs, detailed illustration, geographical distribution, conservation assessment, identification key, and taxonomic comments on the new species are presented.

Notes on Some Bird Fleas, with the Description of a New Species of Ceratophyllus, and a Key to the Bird Fleas Known from Canada (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae)

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent83281-11 ◽

1951 ◽

Vol 83 (11) ◽

pp. 281-289 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

George P. Holland

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Not Given ◽

All known bird fleas are believed to have been derived from species that originally infested mammals. Circumstances evidently have occurred whereby representatives of species that were ordinarily the parasites of mammals became associated with buds, and were successful in establishing themselves on these hosts. These circumstances must have included some provision for isolation whereby the newly transferred colonies of fleas were not given the opportunity of becoming reassociated with the original hosts, and also were not contaminated by subsequent introductions of others of their species. Thus they were able to become adapted to an existence on the bodies and in the nests of avian hosts. The adaptations were physical as well as physiological, many bird fleas exhibiting morphological characteristics which, though not yet properly understood, apparently bear some relationship to their specialized environment.

A taxonomic revision of genus Phloeophila (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) in Ecuador

Plant and Fungal Systematics ◽

10.35535/pfsyst-2021-0002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 66 (1) ◽

pp. 37-45

Author(s):

Marco Marcelo Jiménez ◽

Leisberth Alexis Vélez-Abarca ◽

Luis Enrique Baquero ◽

Carlos James Naranjo

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Taxonomic Revision ◽

Identification Key ◽

Southern Mexico ◽

First Time ◽

The orchid genus Phloeophila is distributed from southern Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia, as well as Cuba. A taxonomic revision including the three Phloeophila species present in Ecuador is presented. Morphological characteristics, an identification key, maps of known localities and illustrations of the species are also included. In Ecuador, species of Phloeophila are only known from the Amazonian rainforests, growing from 890 to 1600 meters of altitude. Phloeophila condorana is described as a new species based on specimens collected in the Ecuadorian province of Zamora-Chinchipe and compared to Phloeophila nummularia. Phloeophila nummularia is reported for the first time in Peru. A lectotype for Pleurothallis echinantha is selected.