Gagea uliginosa Siehe & Pascher, Lotos

Tekşen, Mehtap & Erkul, Seher Karaman, 2015, The synopsis of the genus Gagea (Liliaceae) in Turkey, Phytotaxa 230 (1), pp. 101-129 : 124-125

Gagea uliginosa Siehe & Pascher, Lotos 52(5): 127 (1904)

= G. tauricola Schott & Kotschy ex Tchich., Asie Min., Bot. 2: 534 (1860), nom. inval. = G. uliginosa Siehe & Pascher var. soleimani Bornm. ex Pascher, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 19: 371 (1907) = G. soleimani (Bornm. ex Pascher) Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 165: 43 (1990).

Type (lectotype designated by Stroh 1937: 502): — TURKEY. Konya. Cilicien, Ketsebile, 2600 m, August 1896, Siehe 308 ( B, isotypes in WU!, BM, E!, G!, K!).

Specimens seen: — TURKEY. Aksaray: Hasan mountain above Taşpınar plateau, 16 June 1952, Davis 18954 ( E!) ; Bitlis: Tatvan, 1–3 km beyond Kesan river, Göntepe village , 8 April 2004, T. Ç. 005 ( VANF!) ; Kahramanmaraş: Göksun, Berit mountain, Çavdar-Arapçukuru , 1900–2550 m, 9 May 1991, Z. Aytaç 3773 & H. Duman ( GAZI!) ; Kars: Posof, Gümüşkavak-Posof , throughout forest road, 1600–1750 m, 19 June 1986, N. Demirkuş 3612 ( HUB!) ; Posof, Posof-Gümüşkavak village , throughout forest road, 1600–1750 m, 29 June 1986, N. Demirkuş 3661 ( HUB!) ; Muş: Malazgirt, Aktuzla Konakkurun crossroad, 1650 m, 21 April 2001, S. 1232 ( VANF!) ; Niğde: Aladağ, upper Narpiz , 20 June 1963, Elisabeth Parry 96 ( E!) ; Van: Artos mountain , 15 July 1954, O. Polunin & Davis 22876 ( E!) ; Gürpınar, Zernek dam-Üçgen village, steppe, 2000 m, 30 May 2011, M. Tekşen 2817 & S. Karaman ( GAZI!) ; Güzelsu, 7 km from Hoşap to Gürpınar , steppe, 1971 m, 16 May 2012, M. Tekşen 2883 & S. Karaman ( AKSU!) ; ibidem, M. Tekşen 2682 & S. Karaman ( AKSU!) ; Gürpınar, Zernek dam-Üçgen village, steppe, c. 2000 m, 12 May 2007, I. Demir 42 ( VANF!) ; Gürpınar, Hamurkesen village , steppe, 2000 m, 22 May 2002, M. Ünal 7042 ( VANF!) ; Gürpınar, Işıkpınar village-Sudis mountain, meadows, 2350 m, 22 May 2002, M. Ünal 7036 ( VANF!) ; Muradiye, Alkasnak village , wet places, 1800 m, 26 April 2001, O. Karabacak 1153 ( VANF!) ; Özalp, Beduragan-Seydibe village , steppe, 2194 m, 29 June 1997, F. Özgökçe 4437 ( VANF!) ; Muradiye, Topuzarpa village , meadows, 1750 m, 14 April 1997, M. Ünal 3655 ( VANF!) .

Flowering time: — May–August.

Habitat: — By melting snow patches on screes, meadows, steppe, 2500–3500 m.

Distribution: — Irano-Turanian element. Turkey (Central and East Anatolia), Iran and Iraq.

Note: — Gagea uliginosa differs from the other species by having a neck up to 2 cm, basal leaf equal to or shorter than the inflorescence, 1 cauline leaf, inflorescence 1–2 flowered, flowers green outside, and having brown or dark brown tepals.

Sect. Stipitatae (Pascher) Davlianidze, Not. Syst. Geogr. Inst. Bot. Thbilissiensis. 29: 71 (1972) ≡ Gagea ser. [Reihe] Stipitatae Pasch., Lotos 52, 24: 115 (1904) = sect. Dschungaricae Levichev, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46: 448 (2008)

Type (lectotype designated by Davlianidze 1972: 71): — G. stipitata Merckl. ex Bunge.

In Turkey, sect. Stipitatae is represented by two taxa.

Identification key for Gagea sect. Stipitatae in Turkey:

1. Sclerified roots present; cross section of basal leaf circular, fistulose ........................................................................ G. chomutovae

- Sclerified roots absent; cross section of basal leaf circular, solid ..................................................................................... G. vanensis