Flora of Turkey, Volume 5 9781474466103

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FLORA OF TURKEY VOLUME FIVE

TO ARTHUR

HUBER-MORATH

VOLUME FIVE

FLORA OF TURKEY and the East Aegean Islands

edited by

P.H.DAVIS D.Sc Reader in Taxonomic Botany assisted by V.A. Matthews, B.Sc. F.K. Kupicha, Ph.D. and B.S. Parris, M.Sc. SRC Research Associates

EDlNBURGH at the

UNIVERSITY PRESS

1975

© 1975

Transferred to Digital Print 2010 Edinburgh University Press 22 George Square, Edinburgh Reprinted 1997,2001,2008

Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne A CIP record is available for this book from the British Library ISBN 0 85224 280 8

PREFACE Volume vis devoted to the largest Angiosperm family, Compositae, containing about 1130 Turkish species in 130 genera (of which Centaurea is much the largest), and is likely to remain the largest volume in the series. The complexity of structural detail used in this family's classification has led us to include an introductory section on the range of variation and usage of various terms employed in this volume. As in the Umbelliferae (Volume IV), both dichotomous and multi-access keys to the genera have been provided. A key to the tribes and a synopsis of their genera precedes the main text. In this volume about 410 species (including apomicts) are believed to be endemic to the area covered by the Flora- that is, about 36% of the total. t However, the Compositae is the first major family we have dealt with that has not yet been treated in Grossheim's Flora Kavkaza ed. 2, which spot-maps the Caucasian species present in N.E. Anatolia, so that additional species may need to be added to the flora of