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Issue: Vol. 733 No. 1: 9 Dec. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-12-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.733.1.5
Page range: 109-134
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Novelties in the genus Verbascum (Scrophulariaceae) from Greece

Department of Biology, University of Patras, University Campus, GR26504 Rion, Greece
Biological Museum, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Phylogeny (PCoPh), Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
Department of Biology, University of Patras, University Campus, GR26504 Rion, Greece
Department of Biology, University of Patras, University Campus, GR26504 Rion, Greece
Greek endemic Greek Flora new taxa threatened species Eudicots

Abstract

A forthcoming taxonomic treatment of the genus Verbascum in Greece in the frame of The Flora of Greece Project necessitates the description of one species and two subspecies as new to science, the upgrading to subspecies rank of two taxa formerly recognized as varieties, as well as the formation of two new combinations. Verbascum bolbes from the regional unit Thessaloniki is here described as a new species, whereas V. lychnitis subsp. goulimyi and V. undulatum subsp. suffruticosum from the regional units Serres and Corinthia, respectively, are new subspecies. Furthermore, V. longifolium subsp. samaritanii and V. longifolium subsp. pannosum represent new statuses, whereas V. glandulosum subsp. doiranense and V. macrurum subsp. pannosiforme are the new combinations. Importantly, we also show that the name V. pycnostachyum is misapplied in the East Aegean region as Greek subpopulations do not belong to this species but to the morphologically allied V. davisianum described from Anatolia. We additionally perform the lectotypification of the names V. davisianum and V. glandulosum subsp. doiranense.

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How to Cite

Zografidis, A., Tyler, T., Doğru-Koca, A., Cheminal, A. & Dimopoulos, P. (2025) Novelties in the genus Verbascum (Scrophulariaceae) from Greece. Phytotaxa 733 (1): 109–134. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.733.1.5