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| Fritillaria tunievii Gabrielian, in Gabrielian, 2018. |
Abstract
The new peculiar species Fritillaria tunievii Gabrielian with twin flowers is described from Urts mountain range in Yerevan floristic region of Armenia. Revision of herbarium collections of related species revealed this species to grow also in Aragats, Aparan and Darelegis floristic regions of Armenia, and even in North-East Anatolia. Description, holotype image, distinguishing features from F. hajastanica (Gabrielian) Gabrielian, F. caucasica Adams and F. assyriaca Baker, the map of distribution of the species and photos of plants are enclosed.
Key words: Fritillaria tunievii, Armenia, North-East Anatolia, new species, distinguishing features, distribution
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| Fritillaria tunievii Gabrielian, Urts mountain range; a — habit, b — flowers. (photos by B. S. Tuniev) |
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| Holotype of Fritillaria tunievii Gabrielian (ERE0005792). |
Fritillaria tunievii Gabrielian, sp. nova
(sect. Fritillaria).
Affinity. Boris S. Tuniev noted that on Urts
mountain range F. tunievii grows together with F. hajastanica (Fig. 3), which occurs from 1000 to 1800 m and
more often than the former, which grows solitary or
in small groups, mainly on the northern slopes of the
mountain ridge at 1750–1850 m. As only these two related species occur on Urts mountain range, the following Table focuses on the distinctive characters of these
two.
Habitat. Grassy stony slopes, mountain steppes,
juniper woodland, subalpine meadows, N or NE slopes,
rarely S or SW slopes, at 1400–2500 m.
E. Tz. Gabrielian. 2018. Fritillaria tunievii (Liliaceae), A New Species from Armenia and North-East Anatolia. Novitates Systematicae Plantarum Vascularium [Novitates Syst. Pl. Vasc.]. 49; 19–23. DOI: 10.31111/novitates/2018.49.19
