Chamaespartium sagittale (L.) (Leguminosae) is a new record for the flora of Turkey with specimens collected from Yuvacık Dam (Kocaeli province, NW Turkey). Its description, distribution maps, and photos are given. | Turk J Bot 33 (2009) 453-456 © TÜBİTAK doi: Research Note Chamaespartium Adans. (Leguminosae): a new record for the flora of Turkey Asuman EFE1,*, Engin ÖZHATAY2, Necmi AKSOY3, Dilek DEMİR ORAL1 1 Department of Forest Botany, Faculty of Forestry, İstanbul University, 34473 Bahçeköy, İstanbul - TURKEY 2Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Marmara University, 34722 Göztepe, İstanbul - TURKEY 3Department of Forest Botany, Faculty of Forestry, Düzce University, 81620 Beciyürükler, Düzce - TURKEY Received: Accepted: Abstract: Chamaespartium sagittale (L.) (Leguminosae) is a new record for the flora of Turkey with specimens collected from Yuvacık Dam (Kocaeli province, NW Turkey). Its description, distribution maps, and photos are given. Key words: Chamaespartium, Fabaceae, new record, Turkey Türkiye florası için yeni bir kayıt: Chamaespartium Adans. (Leguminosae) Özet: Yuvacık Barajı Havzasından (Kocaeli-Kuzeybatı Türkiye) toplanan örneklerle Chamaespartium sagittale (L.) (Leguminosae), Türkiye florası için yeni bir kayıttır. Türün fotoğrafları, yayılış haritaları ve tanıtıcı karakterleri verilmiştir. Anahtar sözcükler: Chamaespartium, Fabaceae, yeni kayıt, Türkiye Introduction The genus Chamaespartium Adans. is a polytypic genus mainly found in the Mediterranean region. The species of this genus were classically known as members of Genista L., Genistella Ortega, Spartium L., and Cytisus L. (Leguminosae) (Hegi, 1935; Krüssman, 1985) until new molecular phylogenetic studies showed their position within Chamaespartium or alternatively as its own separate tribe Genistinae (Badr et al., 1994; Ainouche et al., 2003; Pardo et al., 2004). However, here the genus was evaluated in the family Leguminosae, in accordance with the systematic of the Flora of Turkey. Chamaespartium is widely distributed in the Mediterranean zones, much of the Europe except North Europe, Poland, Ireland, Great .
