Aubrieta, Adanson, 1763

Tunçkol, Bilge, Özkan, Neval Güneş & Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A., 2022, Aubrieta necmi-aksoyi (Brassicaceae), a new species from Turkey and a key to the species of Aubrieta, Phytotaxa 530 (2), pp. 251-256 : 255-256

Key to Aubrieta species in Turkey

1a. Petals 0.6–1(–1.1) cm long, white, pale pink, to pale lilac; fruit 0.4–1(–1.2) cm long; sepals 3–4.5(–5.5) mm long, equal, base of lateral pair subsaccate or not saccate.

2a. Leaves dentate; fruit 4–7(–8) mm long, trichomes small stellate and coarser forked and stellate.................................. A. parviflora

2b. Leaves entire; fruit (4–) 6–10 mm long, trichomes uniformly small stellate.................................................................... A. vulcanica

1b. Petals 1–2.8 cm long, purple to violet, rarely pale violet; fruit (0.5–) 0.9–4.8 cm long; sepals 5–12 mm long, unequal, base of lateral pair usually strongly saccate.

3a. Fruit trichomes strongly dimorphic, very small stellate mixed with simple and/or forked ones more than twice longer than stellate ones................................................................................................................................................................................... A. deltoidea

3b. Fruit glabrous or uniformly pubescent with stellate trichomes, rarely mixed with slightly larger simple and/or forked ones.

4a. Fruit inflated, terete, subterete, or rarely slightly flattened, circular to elliptic in cross section.

5a. Fruit not inflated; style 3–5 mm long, shorter than fruit ................................................................................................. A. canescens

5b. Fruit strongly inflated; style (4–) 6–10 mm long, subequaling fruit ............................................................................... A. macrostyla

4b. Fruit distinctly latiseptate, linear to oblong-linear in cross section.

6a. Fruit oblong, 4.5−5.5 mm wide, length/width ratio 2.7−3.3; leaves 1−3-toothed on each side, rarely entire .................. A. olympica

6b. Fruit linear or rarely narrowly oblong, 2−4(−4.5) mm wide, length/width ratio (4−)4.5−20; leaves entire or rarely 1-toothed on each side.

7b. Basal and lowermost cauline leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, length/width ratio 4−10.

8a. Fruit 1.7−1.8 cm long; petals 13−16 mm long; leaves entire........................................................................................ A. anamasica

8b. Fruit (1.9−) 2.2−3.5 cm long; petals 18−19 mm long; at least some leaves 2-toothed....................................................... A. pinardii

7a. Basal and lowermost cauline leaves obovate, spatulate, broadly elliptic, to oblanceolate, length/width ratio 1−3(−3.2).

9a. Fruit (2.4–)3–4.2(–4.5) cm long; leaves usually glabrous on both surfaces except for margin............................................ A. ekimii

9b. Fruit 1–1.9 cm long; leaves pubescent on both surfaces and margin.

10a. Fruiting pedicels 2–5 mm long; fruit 3.5–4.5 mm wide; style 6–8 mm long; petals 14.5–18 mm long; lateral filaments appendaged.................................................................................................................................................................... A. alshehbazii

10b. Fruiting pedicels 8–14 mm long; fruit 1.2–2 mm wide; style 2–4 mm long; petals 8–12.5 mm long; lateral filaments unappendaged............................................................................................................................................................. A. necmi-aksoyi