Abstract
Centaurea peltieri (C. sect. Melanoloma) is described and illustrated as a new endemic species from the Oriental High Atlas of Morocco. The morphology of involucral bracts is the discriminant feature separating it from other closely related species of the section.
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Fernández Casas, J. (1998) De Centaureis occidentalibus notulae sparsae, X. Fontqueria 48: 203–222.
Fernández Casas, J. & Susanna, A. (1982) De Centaureis occidentalibus notulae sparsae, III. Fontqueria 1: 1–8.
Garcia-Jacas, N., Susanna, A., Mozaffarian, R. & Ilarslan, R. (2000) The natural delimitation of Centaurea (Asteraceae: Cardueae): ITS sequence analysis of the Centaurea jacea group. Plant Systematics and Evolution 223: 185–199. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985278
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Hilpold, A., Garcia-Jacas, N., Vilatersana, R. & Susanna, A. (2014) Taxonomical and nomenclatural notes on Centaurea: A proposal of classification, a description of new sections and subsections, and a species list of the redefined section Centaurea. Collectanea Botanica 33: 1–29. https://doi.org/10.3989/collectbot.2013.v33.001
Maire, R. (1932) Contributions à l’étude de la flore de l’Afrique du Nord. Fasc. 19, contr. 1270. Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de l’Afrique du Nord 23: 163–221.
Maire, R. (1933) Contributions à l’étude de la flore de l’Afrique du Nord. Fasc. 21, contr. 1549. Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle du Maroc 13: 263–275.
Maire, R. (1940) Contributions à l’étude de la flore de l’Afrique du Nord. Fasc. 29, contr. 3170. Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de l’Afrique du Nord 31: 7–49.
Susanna, A. & Garcia-Jacas, N. (2007) The tribe Cardueae. In: Kadereit, J.W. & Jeffrey, C. (eds.) Kubitzki’s The families and genera of vascular plants, vol. 8. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 123–146.
Susanna, A. & Garcia-Jacas, N. (2009) The tribe Cardueae. In: Funk, V.A., Susanna, A., Stuessy, T.F. & Bayer, R.J. (eds.) Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of Compositae. IAPT, Vienna, pp. 293–313.
Uysal, T., Ertu?rul, K., Susanna, A. & Garcia-Jacas, N. (2009) New chromosome counts in the genus Centaurea (Asteraceae) from Turkey. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 159: 280–286. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00939.x
Uysal, T., Arslan, E., Tugay, O. & Ertu?rul, K. (2010) Determination of the relationship between some Centaurea species based on SDSPAGE. Turkish Journal of Biology 34: 125–131.
Wagenitz, G. & Hellwig, F.H. (1996) Evolution of characters and phylogeny of the Centaureinae. In: Hind, D.J.N. & Beentje, H.G. (eds.) Compositae: Systematics. Proceedings of the International Compositae Conference, Kew, 1994. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, pp. 491–510.