Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 730 No. 3: 21 Nov. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.730.3.6
Page range: 285-295
Abstract views: 154
PDF downloaded: 7

Asyneuma corymbosum (Campanulaceae), a new species from Central Anatolia

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye
Asyneuma new species Sivrihisar Taxonomy Türkiye Eudicots

Abstract

A new species, Asyneuma corymbosum Aytaç & T. Ertuğrul, has been identified in gypsum soils and arid sandy streambeds of Central Anatolia, Türkiye. Morphologically, the species is closely related to A. rigidum (Willd.) Grossh., but can be distinguished by its pedicellate, usually solitary flowers, as well as by its longer calyx and corolla. While the inflorescence is spicate in many Asyneuma taxa, it is corymbose in the newly described species. A detailed morphological description, diagnostic characters, pollen micromorphology and an identification key are provided. Additionally, its IUCN Red List category and the mapping of the geographical distribution of A. corymbosum and A. rigidum were included.

References

  1. Alçıtepe, E. (2008) Morphological, anatomical and palynological studies on Asyneuma michauxioides (Campanulaceae). Biologia 63: 338–342. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-008-0056-5
  2. Boissier, E. (1867) Flora Orientalis, sive Enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto ad Indiae fines hucusque observatarum, vol. 1. H. Georg, Basel, 1017 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.20323
  3. Bornmüller, J. (1906) Papilionacearum species quaedam novae e flora Phrygiae (Orinaldiagnosen). Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 3: 129–231. https://doi.org/10.1002/fedr.19060033502
  4. Bornmüller, J.F.N. (1921) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Asyneuma Griseb. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt. Abt. 2, Systematik, Pflanzengeographie, angewandte Botanik. Kassel, Dresden 38: 333–351.
  5. Çiçek, M. & Yaprak, A.E. (2013) Scutellaria yildirimlii (Lamiaceae), a new species from Turkey. Phytotaxa 132 (1): 53–58. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.132.1.5
  6. Damboldt, J. (1968) Vorarbeiten zu einer revision der Gattung Asyneuma (Campanulaceae). I. Willdenowia 5: 35–54.
  7. Damboldt, J. (1970) Revision der Gattung Asyneuma. Boissiera 17: 59–129.
  8. Damboldt, J. (1976) Asyneuma Griseb. & Schenk. In: Tutin, T.G., Burges, N.A., Chater, A.O., Edmondson, J.R., Heywood, V.H., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (Eds.) Flora europaea, vol. 4. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 505 pp.
  9. Damboldt, J. (1976) Asyneuma Griseb. & Schenk. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 35 (1): 49. https://doi.org/10.24823/nrbge.1976.3049
  10. Damboldt, J. (1978) Asyneuma. In: Davis, P.H. (ed.) Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 6. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 65–81.
  11. Davis, P.H., Mill, R.R. & Tan, K. (1988) Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands (Supplement), vol. 10. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 180.
  12. Dudley, T.R. (1964) Studies in Alyssum: Near Eastern Representatives and Their Allies. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 45 (1): 57–95. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.185679
  13. Duman, H., Aytaç, Z., Ekici, M., Karaveliogulları, F.A., Dönmez, A. & Duran, A. (1995) Three new species (Labiatae) from Turkey. Flora Mediterranea 5: 221–228.
  14. Ekim, T., Koyuncu, M., Vural, M., Duman, H., Aytaç, Z. & Adıgüzel, N. (2000) Türkiye Bitkileri Kırmızı Kitabı (Red Data Book of Turkish Plants). Türkiye Tabiatını Koruma Derneği, Ankara, 246 pp.
  15. Erdtman, G. (1969) Handbook of Palynology, Morphology, Taxonomy and Ecology. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark, 486 pp. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004631038
  16. Faegri, K. & Iversen, J. (1992) Textbook of Pollen Analysis, 4th Ed. Wiley, New York, 328 pp.
  17. Göktürk, R.S. & Sümbül, H. (2003) Cephalaria aytachii (Dipsacaceae), a new species from central Anatolia, Turkey. Annales Botanici Fennici 40 (2): 123–127.
  18. Grisebach, A. & Schenk, A. (1852) Iter hungaricum a. 1852 susceptum. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 18: 335.
  19. Grossheim, A.A. (1949) Opredelitel' Rasteniĭ Kavkaza [Guide to identifying the plants of the Caucasus]. Dopushcheno v kachestve ucheb... [Soviet State Science Publishing House], Moscow, 747 pp. [In Russian]
  20. Hamzaoğlu, E. (2021) Türkiye’den Yeni Bir Tür, Asyneuma hasandaghense (Campanulaceae). Türler Habitatlar 2: 68–76. https://doi.org/10.53803/turvehab.1013400
  21. Handel-Mazzetti, R. (1913) Pteridophyta und Anthophyta aus Mesopotamien und Kurdistan sowie Syrien und Prinkipo, III. Annalen des K.K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 27: 392–459.
  22. Huber-Morath, A. (1963) Novitiae Florae Anatolicae VI. Bauhinia 2 (2): 192–213.
  23. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) (2022) Standards and Petitions Committee. Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 15.1 (August 2025) Prepared by the Standards and Petitions Committee. Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/documents/RedListGuidelines.pdf (accessed 15 October 2025)
  24. Khansari, E., Zarre, S., Alizadeh, K., Attar, F., Aghabeigi, F. & Salmaki, Y. (2012) Pollen morphology of Campanula (Campanulaceae) and allied genera in Iran with special focus on its systematic implication. Flora 207 (3): 203–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2012.01.006
  25. Lammers, T.G. (2007) Campanulaceae. In: Kadereit, J.W. & Jeffrey, C. (Eds.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Flowering Plants. Eudicots, Asterales, vol. 8. Springer, pp. 26–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31051-8_5
  26. Linnaeus, C. (1753) Species plantarum, 2 vols. Impensis L. Salvius, Holmiae [Stockholm], 1200 pp.
  27. Mabberley, D.J. (2008) Mabberley's Plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classifications and uses. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1040 pp.
  28. Mabberley, D.J. (2017) Mabberley’s plant-book: a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. 4th Ed. Cambridge University Press, 1102 pp. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335581
  29. Menemen, Y., Aytaç, Z. & Kandemir, A. (2016) Türkçe bilimsel bitki adları yönergesi. Bağbahçe Bilim Dergisi 3 (3): 1–3. [in Turkish]
  30. Özgişi, K. (2025) Asyneuma ozudogrui (Campanulaceae), a new species from southern Anatolia. Nordic Journal of Botany 4: 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.04531
  31. Perveen, A. & Qaiser, M. (1999) Pollen flora of Pakistan - XIII. Campanulaceae. Turkish Journal of Botany 23 (1): 45–51.
  32. POWO (2025, continuously updated) Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Available from: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:5619-1 (accessed 1 August 2025)
  33. Punt, W., Hoen, P.P., Blackmore, S., Nilsson, S. & Le Thomas, A. (2007) Glossary of pollen and spore terminology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 143: 1–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.06.008
  34. Rechinger, K.H. & Schimann-Czeika, H. (1965) Asyneuma Griseb. & Schenk. In: Rechinger, K.H. & Schimann-Czeika, H. (Eds.) Flora iranica, vol. 13. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz, pp. 39–47.
  35. Şekercioğlu, Ç.H., Anderson, S., Akçay, E., Bilgin, R., Can, Ö.E., Semiz, G., Tavşanoğlu, Ç., Yokeş, M.B., Soyumert, A., İpekdal, K., Sağlam, İ.K., Yücel, M. & Dalfes, H.N. (2011) Turkey’s globally important biodiversity in crisis. Biological Conservation 144 (12): 2752–2769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2011.06.025
  36. Tan, K. & Yıldız, B. (1988) New Asyneuma (Campanulaceae) taxa from Turkey. Willdenowia 18: 67–80.
  37. Thiers, B. (2021) Index Herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium. [http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/21.04.2021]
  38. Venugopal, D.K., Nampy, S., Mohan, V. & Francis, D. (2021) Asyneuma cupulare, a new species of Campanulaceae from southern Western Ghats, India and lectotypification of Campanula fulgens (Asyneuma fulgens). Nordic Journal of Botany 39: njb.02889. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.02889
  39. Wodehouse, R.P. (1935) Pollen Grains. McGraw-Hill Press, 574 pp.
  40. Yıldırım, H. & Crespo, M.B. (2014) Acantholimon riyatguelii (Plumbaginaceae), a threatened new unarmed species from Central Anatolia, Turkey. Phytotaxa 175 (2): 73–84. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.175.2.2
  41. Yıldırım, H. & Özdöl, T. (2024) Asyneuma yildizianum (Campanulaceae), a new species from SW Türkiye. Kew Bulletin 79: 671–681. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-024-10206-3
  42. Yıldırımlı, Ş. (2012) Asyneuma. In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, T.M. (Eds.) Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını, İstanbul, pp. 300–303.
  43. Yıldırımlı, Ş. (2018) Five new species, a new subspecies and a new combination and status from gypsaceum areas of Ankara Province, Turkey. Ot Sistematik Botanik Dergisi 25 (2): 1–22.
  44. Yıldız, B. (2000) Asyneuma Griseb. & Schenk. In: Güner, A., Özhatay, N., Ekim, T. & Başer, K.H.C. (Eds.) Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands (suppl. 2), vol. 11. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 176–181.

How to Cite

Ertuğrul, T., Aytaç, Z. & Fi̇şne A. (2025) Asyneuma corymbosum (Campanulaceae), a new species from Central Anatolia. Phytotaxa 730 (3): 285–295. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.730.3.6