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Type: Article
Published: 2020-09-25
Page range: 167–184
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Linaria semialata and L. amethystea subsp. aedoi, two new taxa of L. sect. Supinae (Plantaginaceae) from Southeastern Iberian Peninsula

Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071 Granada. Spain.
C/ La Fuente, 19. 30812 Coy (Lorca), Murcia. Spain.
Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Área de Botánica, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia. Spain.
Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Valencia. C/ Quart, 80. 46008 Valencia. Spain.
Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Área de Botánica, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia. Spain.
Antirrhineae endemic species taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

Two new taxa of the genus Linaria are described, illustrated and compared, through a morphometric analysis, to morphologically similar species from L. sect. Supinae: L. amethystea, L. diffusa, L. intricata, and L. orbensis. A Principal Component Analysis and Linear Discriminant Analysis were carried out in order to find out which morphological characters were the most important to discriminate these species. Morphometric analyses revealed that discrimination of species were more related to their particular morphological character combinations than to a private character. Two taxa are described as new to science, by providing a detailed description, illustrations, scanning-electron micrographs and an identification key.