<i>Centaurea stuessyi</i> (Compositae: Cardueae), a new species from the eastern Iberian Peninsula

ITZIAR ARNELAS; JUAN ANTONIO DEVESA; EUSEBIO LÓPEZ

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.115.2.2

Issue: Vol. 115 No. 2: 3 July 2013

Type: Article

Published: 2013-07-03

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.115.2.2

Page range: 42–48

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Centaurea stuessyi (Compositae: Cardueae), a new species from the eastern Iberian Peninsula

ITZIAR ARNELAS⁺⁻
JUAN ANTONIO DEVESA⁺⁻
EUSEBIO LÓPEZ⁺⁻

Asteraceae Centaurea antennata Centaurea linifolia chromosome counts Iberian Peninsula Spain taxonomy

Abstract

Centaurea stuessyi is described as new to science from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, Spain. The range of this new species coincides with the zone of overlap of the ranges of two related species, C. antennata (subsp. antennata) and C. linifolia. The chromosome number found in the new species (2n = 44) reinforces its differences from C. linifolia (2n = 22) and C. antennata (2n = 22). The new species is compared with related species, and a description is given of its ecological preferences.