Gagea antakiensis Kayıkçı, Ocak & Tekşen, Phytotaxa

Tekşen, Mehtap & Erkul, Seher Karaman, 2015, The synopsis of the genus Gagea (Liliaceae) in Turkey, Phytotaxa 230 (1), pp. 101-129 : 106

Gagea antakiensis Kayıkçı, Ocak & Tekşen, Phytotaxa 170(4): 269–277 (2014)

Type: — TURKEY. Hatay. Antakya, Serinyol, around the Serinyol-Yıldırım stream, edge of stream, open forest of Pinus brutia , macchie, 220 m, 4 February 2012, Ocak & Kayıkçı 1331 (holotype OUFE!; isotypes GAZI!, ANK!) .

Specimens seen: — TURKEY. Hatay: Antakya, Serinyol, around the Serinyol-Yıldırım stream, edge of stream, open forest of Pinus brutia , macchie, 220 m, 5 March 2012, Ocak & Kayıkçı 1351 ( GAZI!) ; Altınözü, Narlıca , rocky slopes, 301 m, 2 March 2012, Ocak & Kayıkçı 1348 ( GAZI!) ; Serinyol, around the Yıldırım stream, edge of stream, open forest of Pinus brutia , macchie, 220 m, 12 February 2013, M. Tekşen 2884 & Kayıkçı ( GAZI!) .

Flowering time: — January–February.

Habitat: — Wet places, clearings of Pinus brutia forest, macchie, rocky slopes, 200– 250 m.

Distribution: — Endemic to Turkey (South Anatolia). East Mediterranean (mt.) element.

IUCN category: — Critically Endangered CR B2ab (i, ii, iv), C2a (i, ii).

Note — Gagea antakiensis was described very recently ( Kayıkçı et al. 2014). It is closely related to G. lojaconoi Peruzzi (2008: 145) . However, the neck of the bulb tunics, the constant presence of suprabasal bulbils, and the shape with long neck separate G. antakiensis from G. chrysantha (Jan 1831: 5) Schultes & Schultes (1829: 545) species group ( G. lojaconoi , G. chrysantha , G. amblyopetala Boiss. & Heldr. in Boissier (1846: 107), and G. omalensis J.-M.Tison in Tison et al. (2013: 431). These neck characteristics are also highly unusual in the whole section Didymobulbos ( Kayıkçı et al. 2014) . Gagea antakiensis can be easily distinguished from G. lojaconoi by having suprabasal bulbils during immature to mature ontogeny with a filiform neck up to 1–2 mm, pyriform, reticulate, black, located on the bulbs, cauline leaves longer than the inflorescence corymbose inflorescence, perigone segments elliptic and long hairy at base, flatly subtrihedral in outline with a slightly canaliculate adaxial side and a slightly convex abaxial side in basal leaves cross section (in G. lojaconoi , present in the whole ontogeny, cauline leaves shorter than the inflorescence, paniculate inflorescence, perigone segments subspathulate and glabrous, distinctly trihedral in outline with a deeply canaliculate adaxial side and strongly convex to almost carinate abaxial side in basal leaves cross section; Kayıkçı et al. 2014).