Verbascum samniticum Ten. (Scrophulariaceae) is recorded for the first time for the flora of Turkey with the specimen collected from A1(E) Kırklareli. A description of the species and descriptive illustrations are given based on the collected specimen. Its relationship with V. phlomoides L. is discussed. | Turk J Bot 32 (2008) 411-414 © TÜBİTAK Research Note Verbascum samniticum Ten. (Scrophulariaceae): A New Record for the Flora of Turkey Gülden YILMAZ*, Feruzan DANE University of Trakya, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Biology, Güllapoğlu Campus, 22030 Edirne - TURKEY Received: Accepted: Abstract: Verbascum samniticum Ten. (Scrophulariaceae) is recorded for the first time for the flora of Turkey with the specimen collected from A1(E) Kırklareli. A description of the species and descriptive illustrations are given based on the collected specimen. Its relationship with V. phlomoides L. is discussed. Key Words: New record, Scrophulariaceae, Turkey, Verbascum Verbascum samniticum Ten. (Scrophulariaceae): Türkiye İçin Yeni Bir Kayıt Özet: Verbascum samniticum Ten (Scrophulariaceae) türü Türkiye’den (A1(E) Kırklareli) ilk defa kaydedilmiştir. Türün tanımı, lokalitesi ile tanıtıcı özellikleri verilmiştir. V. phlomoides L. ile ilişkisi tartışılmıştır. Anahtar Sözcükler: Scrophulariaceae, Türkiye, Verbascum, yeni kayıt Introduction The genus Verbascum L. (Scrophulariaceae) includes about 360 species (Heywood, 1993). In Flora Europaea (Ferguson, 1972) Verbascum is represented by 99 species and in the flora of the Balkans (Polunin, 1987) by 70 species. According to recent reports, Verbascum comprises 238 species in Turkey (more than 190 of them are endemic (Kaynak et al., 2006). V. gypsicola Vural & Aydoğdu (Vural & Aydogdu, 1993), V. tuna-ekimii Karaveliogulları, Duran & Hamzaoglu (Karavelioğulları et al., 2004), V. yurtkurianum Kaynak, Daşkın & Yılmaz (Kaynak et al., 2006), and V. lindae Parolly & Kit Tan (Parolly & Tan, 2007) were added to the flora of Turkey. Furthermore, V. roripifolium (Halaˇcsy) I. K. Ferguson and V. ovalifolium Donn ex Sims subsp. thracicum (Velen.) Murb. were added to the flora of European Turkey (Dane & Yılmaz, 2005). In addition, there have been many other systematic studies about Verbascum (Sutor y´ , .
