Cotoneaster insignis Pojark.

Niaki, Nemat Allah Raei, Attar, Farideh, Zamani, Asghar, Maroofi, Hossein & Joharchi, Mohammad Reza, 2022, Five new records and two new reports of Cotoneaster Medik. (Rosaceae) for the Flora of Iran, Adansonia (3) 44 (14), pp. 141-152 : 151

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a14
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6573123
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C87BD-EE05-FFC5-FED6-FF15FDFA5011
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Cotoneaster insignis Pojark.
status

Treatment

Cotoneaster insignis Pojark. View in CoL

( Fig. 8 View FIG )

Flora URSS (Flora Unionis Rerumpublicarum Sovieticarum Socialisticarum) 9: 330 ( Pojarkova 1939).

TYPE. — Described after a cultivated specimen (probably from Kashmir) (holo-, LE) .

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Iran. Province Kurdistan, west of Baneh to Sardasht , Namazgah village , 16.X.2006, Maroofi & Mansoori 8757 ( HKS); GoogleMaps west of Baneh to Sardasht , Namazgah village , 36°04’N, 45°42’E, 1591 m, 18.VIII.2007, Attar, Raei Niaki & Zamani 37454 ( TUH) GoogleMaps .

REMARK

Reviewing different plants collected from Kurdistan province, C. insignis is reported as a new record from Iran ( Fig. 8A View FIG ). The species belongs to subgenus Chaenopetalum ( Fryer & Hylmö 2009). As noted above, C. insignis and C. ellipticus are closest relatives. Other than morphological differences, these species are geographically distinct. So, C. insignis occurs in west of Iran, while C. ellipticus occurs in the northeast of Iran. Consequently, the morphological differences and the discontinuous distribution provide sufficient evidence for treating C. ellipticus and C. insignis as separate species. The geographical distribution of the C. insignis is Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, India, northwestern Himalaya ( Riedl 1969; Pojarkova 1971; Fryer & Hylmö 2009) and west of Iran.

NOTE

This species has been reported from Iran without mention of the locality ( Riedl 1969). So, this species was not verified as a native species for Iran ( Khatamsaz 1992). However, this species was found from west Iran and is introduced as a new record based on the collected data.