This first vouchered wild record is confined to Ceylanpınar province in C8 Şanlıurfa. The diagnostic morphological characters discriminating it from of Aegilops crassa Boiss. are pointed out. Notes are presented on its ecology and phenology. | Research Note Turk J Bot 33 (2009) 447-452 © TÜBİTAK doi: A first vouchered wild record for the flora of Turkey: Aegilops juvenalis (Thell.) Eig (Poaceae) Evren CABİ*, Musa DOĞAN Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Ankara - TURKEY Received: Accepted: Abstract: Aegilops juvenalis (Thell.) Eig (Poaceae) is recorded and vouchered for the first time from Turkey. This first vouchered wild record is confined to Ceylanpınar province in C8 Şanlıurfa. The diagnostic morphological characters discriminating it from of Aegilops crassa Boiss. are pointed out. Notes are presented on its ecology and phenology. A distribution map of this species is also given. Key words: Poaceae, Aegilops juvenalis, new record, Turkey Türkiye Florası için herbaryum materyali haline getirilen ilk yabani kayıt: Aegilops juvenalis (Thell.) Eig (Poaceae) Özet: Aegilops juvenalis (Thell) Eig (Poaceae) Türkiye’den ilk defa herbaryum materyali haline getirilmiş ve rapor edilmiştir. Bu ilk herbaryum materyaline dönüştürülmüş yabani kayıt C8 Şanlıurfa, Ceylanpınar’dan rapor edilmiştir. Bunun Aegilops crassa Boiss. türünden ayırt edici morfolojik karakterleri belirtilmiştir. Türün ekolojisi ve fenolojisi üzerine notlar sunulmuştur. Ayrıca türün Türkiye’deki dağılım haritası verilmiştir. Anahtar sözcükler: Poaceae, Aegilops juvenalis, yeni kayıt, Türkiye Introduction The genus Aegilops L. consists of more than 20 species and constitutes the secondary gene pool for cultivated wheats (van Slageren, 1994). Species in the genus Aegilops are distributed in South-west and Central Asia and throughout the Mediterranean basin. A primary centre of diversity of the genus Aegilops is considered to be the ‘Fertile Crescent’, because a larger number of Aegilops species are found there than in other areas (van Slageren, 1994). In the Flora of Turkey, Davis (1985) reported 15 species within 2 subgenera that did .
