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Asparagus bojnurdensis Hamdi & Assadi

  • 1. Halophytes and C Plants Research Laboratory, Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biology, College of Sciences, University of & Tehran, P. O. Box 14155 - 6455, Tehran, Iran
  • 2. Halophytes and C Plants Research Laboratory, Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biology, College of Sciences, University of
  • 3. Environmental Health Program, Şabanözü Vocational School, Çankırı Karatekin University, P. O. Box 18650, Çankırı, Türkiye
  • 4. Halophytes and C Plants Research Laboratory, Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biology, College of Sciences, University of & Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Strasse 6 - 8, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Description

Asparagus bojnurdensis Hamdi & Assadi (in Hamdi et al. 2017: 72, 22: 1).

Holotype:— IRAN. [North] Khorasan Prov.: Bojnurd, Bojnurd west, between Shahabad and Aghemam, near Satellate, 1200 m, Zangooei & Alvani 15793 (FUMH, photo!, isotype FUMH, photo!).

Despite its publication in 2017, the species is missing in Flora of Iran (Assadi 2023) as an accepted, doubtful or synonym. However, the holotype is cited in the list of specimens examined as A. verticillatus (page 9 in Assadi 2023). Whether the author of Flora of Iran who is the co-author of the new name does not agree on the novelty of A. bojnurdensis or has not been aware of the paper that has been co-author of, we are not able to judge. We have seen the photo of the holotype (thanks to Mr. Mohammad Reza Jourharchi). In addition to holotype material, another collection was reported from the border of Golestan National Park in NE Iran [Khorassan: Almeh towards Sulegerd, 1250m, 13 July 2002, Mousavi, Abbasi & Paryab 8956 (FUMH)]. Based on the photo of the holotype and isotype and study of ample material from the Golestan National Park Area (Akhani 1998, 2005), we conclude that A. bojnurdensis is a synonym of A. verticillatus.

Notes

Published as part of Akhani, Hossein, Abdullahi, Hussaini, Ürker, Okan & Malekmohammadi, Maryam, 2024, Molecular phylogenetic studies on Asparagus (Asparagaceae) revealed the position of the highly endangered Irano-Turkish halophytic species A. lycaonicus P. H. Davis related to A. officinalis L., pp. 125-142 in Phytotaxa 646 (2) on page 136, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.646.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13215319

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Biodiversity

Collection code
FUMH
Scientific name authorship
Hamdi & Assadi
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Asparagales
Family
Asparagaceae
Genus
Asparagus
Species
bojnurdensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , isotype

References

  • Assadi, M. (2023) Asparagaceae. In: Assadi & Maassoumi, A. A. (Eds.) Flora of Iran, 174. Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Iran, 22 pp.
  • Akhani, H. (1998) Plant biodiversity of Golestan National Park, Iran. Stapfia 53: 1 - 411
  • Akhani, H. (2005) The Illustrated Flora of Golestan National Park, Iran. Vol. 1. Tehran University Press, Tehran, 481 pp.