Campanula raddeana Trautv. (Campanulaceae), based on samples collected from Çıldır (A9 Ardahan), and Galatella cretica Gand. (Asteraceae), based on samples collected from Marmaris (C1 Muğla), were recorded as new findings for the Flora of Turkey. | Turkish Journal of Botany Turk J Bot (2016) 40: 676-681 © TÜBİTAK doi: Research Note Two new records and a confirmation for the vascular flora of Turkey 1, 1 2 1 Hasan YILDIRIM *, Yusuf ALTIOĞLU , Riyat GÜL , Meliha GEMİCİ 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey 2 Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey Received: Accepted/Published Online: Final Version: Abstract: Campanula raddeana Trautv. (Campanulaceae), based on samples collected from Çıldır (A9 Ardahan), and Galatella cretica Gand. (Asteraceae), based on samples collected from Marmaris (C1 Muğla), were recorded as new findings for the Flora of Turkey. In addition, Silene samia Melzh. & Christod. (Caryophyllaceae) was confirmed in Turkey based on samples from four localities in southwest Anatolia. Detailed descriptions, locality information, and distribution maps of the cited taxa were also given in the present study. Key words: Campanula, Galatella, Silene, taxonomy 1. Introduction Campanula L. includes about 420 species, which are widely distributed in temperate and subtropical zones of the northern hemisphere (Lammers, 2007), and it is represented by 127 species in Turkey, about half of which are endemic (İkinci, 2012; Yıldırım, 2013; Yıldırım and Şenol, 2014; Mutlu and Karakuş, 2015). In June 2015 during fieldwork in Ardahan Province (northeast Anatolia, Turkey), the first and second authors collected Campanula raddeana Trautv., which had not been recorded from Turkey previously. Galatella Cass. (Asteraceae) consists of approximately 45 species distributed mainly throughout Turkey, Europe, Iran, and Russia and from India to western China (Tzvelev, 1959; Nesom and Robinson, 2007). It is represented by 5 species in Turkey (Ekim, 2012; Hamzaoğlu et al., 2013). In June 2014 and 2015, Galatella cretica Gand., which had not been recorded from .
