Salvia viscosa Jacq. is reported for the first time from Turkey. This new record is confined to Yayladağ in Hatay province. The diagnostic morphological characters from S. virgata Jacq. are discussed. A distribution map of this new record is also given. | Research Note Turk J Bot 33 (2009) 57-60 © TÜBİTAK doi: A New Record for the Flora of Turkey: Salvia viscosa Jacq. (Labiatae) Ferhat CELEP1,*, Musa DOĞAN1, Ahmet DURAN2 1 Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, 06531 Ankara - TURKEY 2 Selçuk University, Faculty of Education, Department of Biology, 42090 Meram, Konya - TURKEY Received: Accepted: Abstract: Salvia viscosa Jacq. is reported for the first time from Turkey. This new record is confined to Yayladağ in Hatay province. The diagnostic morphological characters from S. virgata Jacq. are discussed. A distribution map of this new record is also given. Key Words: Lamiaceae, Salvia, New Record, Turkey Türkiye Florası İçin Yeni Bir Tür: Salvia viscosa Jacq. (Labiatae) Özet: Salvia viscosa Jacq. türü Türkiye’den ilk defa Hatay-Yayladağ’dan rapor edilmiştir. Türün tanımı, dağılım alanı ve S. virgata Jacq.’dan ayırdedici olan morfolojik karakterleri verilmiştir. Anahtar Sözcükler: Lamiaceae, Salvia, Yeni Kayıt, Türkiye Introduction The first revision of Salvia L. in Turkey was made by Hedge (1982a), who recognized 86 species, 1 hybrid, and 1 doubtful species. Since then, 6 more new species, S. nydeggeri . (1982), S. aytachii Vural & Adıgüzel (1996), S. hedgeana Dönmez (2001), S. anatolica Hamzaoğlu & (2005), S. marashica A. İlçim, F. Celep & Dogan (2009) and S. ekimiana & Dogan (2009), and 2 new records, namely S. macrosiphon Boiss. (Kahraman et al., 2009) and S. aristata Aucher ex Benth. (Behçet & Avlamaz, 2009), have been described from Turkey. The total has now reached 95 with this record. In 2001, during one of the field trips in the Mediterranean region of Turkey (C6 Hatay, C6 sensu Davis, 1965), an unusual specimen of Salvia was collected by Dr. A. Duran from Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey. At first glance, it looked very similar to S. virgata Jacq. After closer examination and consultation .
