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Type: Article
Published: 2012-05-16
Page range: 26–36
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Establishment of Rosa sect. Caninae subsect. Orientales (Rosaceae) and the recognition of an unusual variety of Rosa vanheurckiana from eastern Anatolia, Turkey

Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 2D, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Ege University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 35100, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey
University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Natural Foundations, Wojska Polskiego 71D, PL-60-625 Poznań, Poland.
Rosa sect. Caninae subsect. Orientales Rosa vanheurckiana Turkey Eudicots

Abstract

The establishment of section Orientales in the genus Rosa (Rosaceae) was proposed by Crépin in 1868, but only the name of the taxon was published. Section Orientales was not formally described until more than a hundred years later by Mandenova (1970), who placed in it three closely related species: Rosa orientalis (as the type of the section), R. heckeliana and R. vanheurckiana. These three taxa and R. doluchanovii described in 1976 fall entirely within the morphological circumscription of section Caninae, however, their combined features do not fit any subsection recognized in this section. The reduction of section Orientales to the new rank of subsection is thus hereby proposed. In addition an unusual morphotype of Rosa vanheurckiana with hypanthia and fruits covered with densely pilose setae is described from the province of Malatya in eastern Anatolia, Turkey as Rosa vanheurckiana var. barbata.