Linaria yusufeliensis A.Galán, S.Makbul & Hamzaoğlu, 2018

Mera, Antonio Galán De, Makbul, Serdar & Hamzaoğlu, Ergin, 2018, Linaria yusufeliensis, a replacement name for the Turkish Linaria turcica Makbul & Hamzaoğlu (Plantaginaceae), Phytotaxa 338 (1), pp. 149-150 : 149

Linaria yusufeliensis A.Galán, S.Makbul & Hamzaoğlu , nom. nov.

Replaced name: Linaria turcica Makbul & Hamzaoğlu in Makbul et al. (2011: 177), non L. tursica Valdés & Cabezudo (1977: 10)

Both species belong to the section Diffusae (Benth. in De Candolle 1846: 284) Wettst. in Engler & Prantl (1891: 59), a group with non-discoid seeds and undivided style. Linaria turcica was named after the country of Turkey and characterized by alternate lower leaves and a reddish and purple corolla with yellowish cream parts, whereas L. tursica Valdés & Cabezudo , named after Tursa, an ancestral name of the Tartessus civilization from the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula, presents verticillate lower leaves and a blue-violet corolla with orange and yellowish parts.