Sorbus orbiculata (Rosaceae), a new species from Caucasus, North-East Anatolia and North-West Iran

E. Tz. Gabrielian

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31111/novitates/2018.49.87

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Abstract

Long-standing observations of plants named by Yu. D. Zinserling (1939) Sorbus graeca (Spach) Lodd. ex S. Schauer var. orbiculata Zinserl., nom. inval., descr. ross., and later described by us as S. umbellata (Desf.) Fritsch var. orbiculata Gabrielian (1978), allowed to identify significant additional features to clearly distinguish them from typical plants of S. graeca. We propose to consider these plants as an independent species S. orbiculata (Gabrielian) Gabrielian, comb. et stat. nov. Distinctive features of this species from S. graeca, as well as from other closely related species S. umbellata and S. taurica Zinserl. are shown.

Key words: Sorbus graeca complex, S. orbiculata, Caucasus, North-East Anatolia, North-West Iran, new species, distinctive features, key for determination of closely related species

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Gabrielian E. Tz. 2018. Sorbus orbiculata (Rosaceae), a new species from Caucasus, North-East Anatolia and North-West Iran // Novitates Syst. Pl. Vasc. Vol. 49. P. 87–92. https://doi.org/10.31111/novitates/2018.49.87

Submitted: 20.08.2018. Accepted: 21.12.2018.

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