Acantholimon davisii Akaydın & M.B.Crespo, 2018

Akaydin, Galip & Crespo, Manuel B., 2018, Acantholimon davisii (Plumbaginaceae), a new specific name for the Turkish endemic A. caryophyllaceum subsp. parviflorum, Phytotaxa 334 (1), pp. 80-82 : 80-81

Acantholimon davisii Akaydın & M.B.Crespo , nom. nov.

≡ A. caryophyllaceum subsp. parviflorum Bokhari (1970: 299) [replaced synonym] ≡ A. parviflorum (Bokhari) Akaydın & Doǧan (2007: 414) , nom. illeg. [non A. parviflorum Regel (1882: 73) ] ( Fig. 1 ).

Type (see Bokhari 1970: 299):— TURKEY. A 5 Sinop: Boyabat, 350 m, bare eroded hills (clay), dominant, lax cushion fls. pink, 24.vii.1962, Davis, Coode & Yaltırık D. 38043 (holotype E, barcode E 00327025!) [available at http://plants.jstor.org/stable/viewer/10.5555/ al.ap.specimen.e00327025].

Eponymy:—This endemic species is named after Prof. Peter H. Davis, the general editor of Flora of Turkey, who also collected the specimen upon which it was first described as A. caryophyllaceum subsp. parviflorum by Bokhari (1970: 299).

Habitat and ecology:— Acantholimon davisii occurs on bare eroded hills and on gypsum slopes at elevations of 350– 900 m. It is an Irano-Turanian element distributed in the A 3, A 4 and A 5 squares, in central-northern Turkey ( Fig. 2 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Acantholimon davisii Akaydın & M.B.Crespo in habitat, near the type locality (A5 Sinop, between Hanönü and Boyabat, around Salar village, 330 m, 15 July 2001, G. Akaydın 7076).

FIGURE 2. Known distribution of Acantholimon davisii in Turkey.