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Gagea calcicola . A habitat on steeply sloping, bare gypsophilous soil; B habitat in Quercus brantii scrubland on steep limestone slopes; C Gagea calcicola in fi ssures of limestone rocks; D Mr K. Golzarianpoor trying to collect specimens on a steep limestone slope; E , F & G habit, leaves, in fl orescences and fl owers of Gagea calcicola .
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A new species, Gagea calcicola (Liliaceae) is described and illustrated. It differs from G. reticulata (Pall.) Schult. & Schult. f. through having a compound umbelliform inflorescence and bulbils in the axil of the lower cauline
leaves. The new species is endemic to southwestern Iran. Its ecology, distribution and conservation status are discussed....
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... This species is found from 370 -870 m in altitude, usually on calcareous soils (Fig. 3A), on steep limestone rock walls (Fig. 3B) and in limestone pockets that fill with a little soil. Most collections have been made from very narrow fissures in the steep limestone (Fig. 3C & D); it is a difficult plant to collect due to the inaccessibility of its habitat. Gagea calcicola is usually found in Quercus brantii Lindl. ...
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... This species is found from 370 -870 m in altitude, usually on calcareous soils (Fig. 3A), on steep limestone rock walls (Fig. 3B) and in limestone pockets that fill with a little soil. Most collections have been made from very narrow fissures in the steep limestone (Fig. 3C & D); it is a difficult plant to collect due to the inaccessibility of its habitat. Gagea calcicola is usually found in Quercus brantii Lindl. scrublands with taxa such as Arum, Clypeola, ...
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... This species is found from 370 -870 m in altitude, usually on calcareous soils (Fig. 3A), on steep limestone rock walls (Fig. 3B) and in limestone pockets that fill with a little soil. Most collections have been made from very narrow fissures in the steep limestone (Fig. 3C & D); it is a difficult plant to collect due to the inaccessibility of its habitat. Gagea calcicola is usually found in Quercus brantii Lindl. scrublands with taxa such as Arum, Clypeola, Isatis, Biscutella, Ephedra etc. Acrocarpus mosses are dominant where it occurs. Some plants were found on similar calcareous soils in open areas lacking ...
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... plant to collect due to the inaccessibility of its habitat. Gagea calcicola is usually found in Quercus brantii Lindl. scrublands with taxa such as Arum, Clypeola, Isatis, Biscutella, Ephedra etc. Acrocarpus mosses are dominant where it occurs. Some plants were found on similar calcareous soils in open areas lacking woody vegetation (e.g. Figs. 3A & 3G). CONSERVATION STATUS. We estimate the extent of occurrence (EOO) of this species to be 5000 km 2 , given that it is found in a roughly triangular area 100 km wide and high. Despite extensive field surveys in the area in which it occurs, Gagea calcicola has rarely been seen by the first author in places that are easily accessed by ...
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... Numerous studies have estimated that the number of species in the genus ranges from about 100 (Dahlgren et al. 1985;Xinqi and Turland 2000) to more than 320 (Levichev 2013;Peterson et al. 2016), which is largely due to the incomplete taxonomic revision of Gagea (Levichev 1999). Several new species from Iran (Zarrei et al. 2010a(Zarrei et al. , 2010b, Western Europe (Peruzzi et al. 2007), and Turkey, and surrounds (Kayikçi et al. 2014) were described in the last decade. Central Asia is considered a territory with many newly described species of Gagea. ...
This paper discusses identifying Important Plant Areas (IPAs) in one of the most densely populated regions of Central Asia-the Fergana valley. The recognition of IPA sites is an attempt to introduce new ways of conserving local plant diversity with a high concentration of endemic species in Central Asia, where conservation methods of the former Soviet Union still prevail. The research revealed the current state and geography of many rare species and enriched the flora of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan with several rare species. The second IPA is the transboundary territory of the Fergana valley, uniting the southern spurs of the Chatkal range and the Ungortepa-BozbuToo massif. We documented the distribution of 62 species in the IPAs under the sub-criteria of Plantlife International. Our study aimed at continuing studies on the IPAs in this region, addressing specific conservation challenges, such as conserving national endemics and endangered species that grow outside protected areas and GIS mapping of endemic species.
... These species are cultivated in collaboration with the Russian scientist Levichev and scientists of the Institute of Botany.А lot of research has been done on the cytematics, distribution and phylogeny of the genus around the world. As a result, new species have been identified[14]-[27]. In Uzbekistan, too, a lot of research has been carried out on the dis-tribution and populations of Geophyte plants. ...
In this article, 1650 herbarium specimens of representatives of the genus Gagea Salisb. were used as research material from the collections of the National Herbarium of Uzbekistan (TASH). It presents a geographical coordinate system, habitats, phenology, and economic values. The distribution of species in
Uzbekistan was indicated by the phytogeographic regions of the country. The herbarium material of Gagea Salisb. has been studied in TASH, SAMSU and MW. The TASH Herbarium presents samples from 1914 to 2019. The review was written using information published between 1988 and 2019 from a number of reliable sources, including Science Direct, Springer, PubMed, EMBASE and Wikipedia
... f. species complex belongs to Gagea section Platyspermum and reported at least twelve named taxa with the names of, G. alexeenkoana Miscz., G. anonyma Rech.f., G. bergii Litv., G. calcicola-Zarrei and Wilkin, G. caroli-kochii Grossh., G. commutate K. Koch, G. graminifolia Vved., G. reticulata, G. robusta Zarrei & Wilkin, G. tenuifolia (Boiss.) Fomin, G. setifolia Baker, and G. vegeta Vved [2][3][4][5]. ...
... Many of them distribute widely till reaching as far as North Africa. G. reticulata is the most common widespread species in dry areas [4,5]. ...
... Probably some taxa only merit recognition as subspecies or morphological variants. Zarrei et al. (2007Zarrei et al. ( , 2010b have designed many studies for establishing species limits and published morphological details of Gagea species in Iran, giving a spot on the G. reticulata complex, but unfortunately that group suffers from a lack of detailed phylogenetic studies. Also, scarce karyological data about species of G. reticulata complex are available [4,5,13]. ...
... Gagea Salisbury (1806: 555) has approximately 280 (Peruzzi 2012) -300 species worldwide [1][2][3][4]. This genus counts according to A.I. Vvedensky data of the beginning of the XXI century, 83 species were known in Uzbekistan [5]. ...
... The distribution of species by regions was carried out according to the scheme of modern botanical and geographical zoning of Uzbekistan [1][2][3][4]. The nomenclature part was adopted in accordance with the Central Asian Plant Identifier ("Conspectus Florae Asiae Mediae") [5], database on plant list [7]. ...
The importance of different taxonomic discrimination features for Gagea
taxa is discussed. One new species of genus Gagea from Sultanuvais and adjacent regions
is described.
... Gagea Salisbury (1806: 555) has approximately 280 (Peruzzi 2012) -300 species worldwide [1][2][3][4]. This genus counts according to A.I. Vvedensky data of the beginning of the XXI century, 83 species were known in Uzbekistan [5]. ...
... The distribution of species by regions was carried out according to the scheme of modern botanical and geographical zoning of Uzbekistan [1][2][3][4]. The nomenclature part was adopted in accordance with the Central Asian Plant Identifier ("Conspectus Florae Asiae Mediae") [5], database on plant list [7]. ...
The importance of different taxonomic discrimination features for Gagea taxa is discussed. One new species of the genus Gagea from Sultanuvais and adjacent regions is described.
... In the last few decades several new species of the genus Gagea Salisb. were described based on analyses of morphological and anatomical characters (Zarrei and Zarre, 2003;Hamzaoğlu et al., 2008, Zarrei et al., 2010aLevichev et al., 2019). ...
In this study, morphological and anatomical properties of species Gagea pratensis (Pers.) Dumort. were investigated and described. The comparative analysis included six populations from Serbia and Montenegro. This study aimed to examine potential morpho-anatomical differentiation and the characters that contribute most to the differences between populations. Statistical analyses were carried out for 19 morphological and 5 anatomical characters of 122 specimens using program STATISTICA 7, including the analysis of variance (ANOVA), principal component (PCA) and discri-minant analysis (CDA). Analysis of variance showed that almost all investigated characters are statistically significant for differentiation of analysed populations. According to the principal component analysis characters that contributed the most to the separation of populations were height of the whole plant, bulb width, width and length of basal leaf, width and in-dumentum type of peduncle, length of first cauline leaf, width and length of second cauline leaf, and width of outer and inner segments of perigone. The results of thr discriminant analysis showed the existence of morpho-anatomical differentiation between analysed populations, separating the population from locality Gamzigradska banja from all other populations.
... (Fumariaceae), Ophrys kurdistanica Renz, Epipactis rechingeri Renz, and Ophrys turcomanica Renz (Farahmand and Nazari, 2015) are not in the Wendelbo (1977) category. The introduction of new species, especially bulbous plants such as Oxalis articulata (Ghahremaninejad and Gholamian, 2006), Eminium jaegeri (Bogner and Boyce, 2008), Muscari kurdicum Maroofi (Maroofi, 2007), Leopoldia tijtijensis (Jafari, 2012), Gagea calcicola (Zarrei et al., 2010), Tulipa faribae (Ghahreman et al., 2007), Gagea alexii (Ajani et al., 2010), and Allium (Razyfard et al., 2011), increased the richness of geophytic species in Iran. These species have a high potential for being employed in floriculture industries and serve as cut, garden and landscape flowers, and pot flo-wering plants (Farahmand and Nazari, 2015;Mohammadi-Dehcheshmeh et al., 2008;Nazari et al., 2014;Nazari et al., 2007;Samiei et al., 2010). ...
Never before in history has the issue of preserving biodiversity been of such significance than today, to the extent that it has become an important global issue. Nowadays, humans have a massive impact on biodiversity whether in rural, urban, or wilderness settings. Besides, biodiversity today is also being significantly constrained by climate change and the introduction of new varieties of plants. Plant tissue culture is a method that can be useful for collecting, storing, and multiplicating of plant germplasms. Nowadays, many valuable germplasms are in danger of extinction, especially in Iran. Thus, there is a necessity to preserve valuable Iranian ornamental geophytes such as Oxalis articulata, Eminium jaegeri, Muscari kurdicum, Leopoldia tijtijensis, Gagea calcicola, Tulipa faribae, Gagea alexii, and Allium. In this study, plant tissue culture as well as in vitro conservation techniques as means for medium- and long-term conservation of Iranian ornamental geophytes is reviewed. There are only few studies on plant tissue culture of Iranian ornamental geophytes despite their great importance in Iran. To our knowledge, there is no report on cryopreservation of the abovementioned plants. In conclusion, the methods presented in this review can be utilized for conserving these valuable germplasms for future generations. © 2018, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry. All rights reserved.
... The introduction of new species and records of flower bulbous plants from Iran such as Oxalis articulata (Ghahremaninejad and Gholamian, 2006), Tulipa faribae (Ghahreman et al., 2007), Muscari kurdicum Maroofi (Maroofi, 2007), Eminium jaegeri (Bogner and Boyce, 2008), Gagea calcicola (Zarrei et al., 2010), Gagea alexii (Ajani et al., 2010), Allium (Razyfard et al., 2011) and Leopoldia tijtijensis (Jafari, 2012) indicates the richness of geophytic species in Iran. The flower bulbs of Iran have high potentials for the horticulture and floriculture industry and could be used as cut flowers, pot flowering plants, and garden and landscape plants Nazari et al., 2011;Farahmand and Nazari, 2014;Nazari et al., 2014). ...
Ornamental geophytes (ornamental flower bulbs) are international and national heritage considering their contribution to people's life quality around the world. Iranian habitats support about 8000 species of flowering plants (belonging to 167 families and 100 genera) of which almost 1700 are endemic. Iran is a rich country in terms of distribution of bulbous plants. More than 200 species of bulbous species from different plant families naturally grow in Iran and play an important role in the colorful display of flowers in the plains, mountains, and forests. Unfortunately, some flower bulbs are at the risk of eradication in Iran due to some factors, including inappropriate herboviry and overgrazing, land use change, illegal bulb and flower harvesting, road construction, mining activities, drought, etc. The establishment of protected areas, efficient propagation methods such as micropropagation, gathering the species at the risk of extinction in Botanical Gardens and Research Centers, highlighting the decisive role of Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and improving tourism are some approaches suggested for better conservation. Meanwhile, under the current situation, national and international protecting rules and regulations should be assigned and fulfilled to save this invaluable natural heritage.
... ex Reichenbach (1830: 102) is one of the 15 genera currently included in the family Liliaceae (Tribe Tulipeae) and is represented by approximately 280 (Peruzzi 2012a) to 300 species worldwide (Tison et al. 2013). The members of the genus are largely distributed across the temperate and subtropical regions of Eurasia, Europe, and Western Asia, with a few species in North Africa and North America (Zarrei et al. 2007, 2010a, 2010b, Peruzzi 2012a. Mediterranean species represent about 25% of the existing species from all Gagea sections (Peruzzi 2008a). ...
... In the recent years, many researchers have contributed to taxonomy within the genus (Ali & Levichev 2007, Levichev 1999, 2006, Levichev & Ali 2006, Peruzzi 2003, 2008a, 2012b, 2008a, 2008b, 2009a, 2009b, 2011, Peruzzi & Bartolucci 2006, Peterson et al. 2004, 2010, 2011, Schnittler et al. 2013, Tison et al. 2013, Zarrei et al. 2007, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c, 2011. Currently, the genus Gagea includes 15 sections, mainly distinguished according to the morpho-anatomic and ontogenetic features of the basal and cauline leaves, peduncle, pedicels, tepals, and seeds (Peterson et al. 2008, Peruzzi 2012a). ...
Gagea antakiensis (Liliaceae) is described and illustrated as a new species from Hatay province in South Anatolia, Turkey. The new species belongs to the section Didymobulbos, based on morphological features, and it is close to G. lojaconoi. The samples belonging to G. chrysantha species group in the Flora of Turkey were confirmed as G. lojaconoi. A taxonomic description, an illustration of the new species, geographical distribution, habitat and ecology, conservation status of the new species and its affinity to G. lojaconoi and G. chrysantha species group are given in this study. In addition, the anatomical features of G. antakiensis and G. lojaconoi are given.
... Probably some taxa only merit recognition as subspecies or morphological variants. Zarrei et al. (2007Zarrei et al. ( , 2010b went some way towards establishing species limits and published detailed morphological studies of Iranian species of Gagea, with a focus on the G. reticulata complex, but this group suffers from a lack of detailed phylogenetic studies. ...
