Centaurea uysalii (Cyanus/Asteraceae), a new species from Turkey

Abstract

Centaurea uysalii Şirin & Çeçen, a new Asteraceae species from the province of Karaman, in Turkey, is described andillustrated herein. It is morphologically similar to C. bourgaei Boiss. (Subgen. Cyanus), but it mainly differs from its relative in terms ofthe involucre and achene lengths. The achene micromorphological features and karyomorphology of C. uysalii and C. bourgaei wereexamined in this study. The IUCN conservation status is the Critically Endangered [CR B2 a b (i, iii)] category