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Issue: Vol. 425 No. 1: 27 November 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-27
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.425.1.3
Page range: 35–48
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Notes on the genus Silene (Caryophyllaceae, Sileneae) in Iran

Department of Plant Science, Centre of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14155-6455, Tehran, Iran
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, P.O. Box 76169-133, Kerman, Iran
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Payame Noor University (PNU), P.O. Box 19395-3697, Tehran, Iran
University of Michigan Herbarium-EEB, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108-2228, U.S.A.
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 461, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 461, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden
Department of Plant Science, Centre of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, School of Biology, College of Science, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14155-6455, Tehran, Iran
Eudicots nomenclature S. fimbriata S. multifida Silene sect. Auriculatae taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species―Silene orientoalborzensis and S. circumcarmanica―are here described from Northeast and South Iran, respectively. They belong to Silene subg. Silene sect. Auriculatae which is the largest section of the genus in W-Asia. A specimen from center of Iran, which was identified erroneously as S. atocioides, is revised and identified as S. pendula which represents a new record for the Iranian flora. S. simsii is proposed as a nomen novum for Cucubalus multifidus.