Flora of Turkey, Volume 6 9781474466110

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FLORA OF TURKEY VOLUME SIX

VOLUME SIX

FLORA OF TURKEY and the East Aegean Islands

edited by

P.H.DAVIS D.Sc. Reader in Taxonomic Botany assisted by J. R. Edmondson, Ph.D. R. R. Mill, B.Sc. and B.S. Parris, M.Sc. SRC Research Assistants

EDINBURGH at the

UNIVERSITY PRESS

1978

© 1978

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 336 7

PREFACE Volume v 1 takes us from Lobeliaceae to the end of Scrophulariaceae in Boissier's sequence, and contains 19 families, 140 genera, and 1110 species, of which 433 (39 %) are treated as endemic to the Flora of Turkey area. Literature records. Our dependence on literature records has diminished as modern exploration of Turkey has proceeded and more specimens are examined by the authors. A supplementary list of floristic literature record sources (excluding monographs and revisions) has been prepared at Edinburgh. For the present and subsequent volumes approximately 140 sources have been scanned. This number is continually being augmented. In the new volume such additional records have been taken into account, but for previous volumes only about 110 references were usually employed. Authors of papers giving additional records for earlier volumes of the Flora are invited to send reprints (or manuscript records) to the Editor, so that such data can be gathered together for a Supplement; the same applies to chromosome counts based on material of Turkish origin. Islands. Increasing exploration of the East Aegean Islands and pressure of space in the Flora prevent us from citing records of common species from all the islands from which they are known. In the present volume we have therefore reduced the number of islands cited to a maximum of six, for which preference has been given (other things being equal) to lmroz (Gok