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Issue: Vol. 433 No. 3: 18 February 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-18
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.433.3.1
Page range: 181–189
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 23

Allium matinae—a new species from northwestern Iran

Botanical Garden of the University of Osnabrueck, Albrechtstrasse 29, 49076 Osnabrueck, Germany. I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Department of Pharmaceutical and Natural Sciences, Izmailovsky Boulevard, 8, Moscow, 105043, Russian Federation.
Department of Botany, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran
Mountain Botanical Garden of the Dagestan Scientific Centre RAS. M. Gadjiev Street, 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367000, Russian Federation.
Department of Genbank, Research Group Experimental Taxonomy, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Stadt Seeland OT Gatersleben, Germany.
Allium sect. Daghestanica Caucasus disjunctive distribution molecular species diagnosis Eudicots

Abstract

Allium matinae from northwestern Iran is newly described based on morphological and molecular characters. The new species belongs to Allium sect. Daghestanica, which is distributed in three main disjunctive areas: Europe, Caucasus and China. Allium matinae shows morphological similarity with the European species of this section, despite being more related to the Caucasian species according to molecular results. The Caucasian species together with the new Iranian species show an intermediate position in A. sect. Daghestanica, which is evidenced by incongruence between nrDNA (ITS) and cpDNA trees.