Centaurea wagenitziana (Asteraceae: Centaureinae), a new species from the Eastern Balkans

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  • Kit Tan
  • Svetlana Bancheva
  • Mecit Vural
  • Arne Strid

Centaurea wagenitziana Bancheva & Kit Tan from SE Bulgaria and NW Turkey is described as a species new to

Bancheva & Kit Tan from SE Bulgaria and NW Turkey is described as a species new to

science. Its chromosome number of 2n = 30 is a first report. It closely resembles C. amplifolia with which it had

been misidentified; the latter is endemic to the Peloponnese in southern Greece and is lectotypified in this paper.

Original languageEnglish
JournalPhytologia Balcanica
Volume15
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)51-58
Number of pages8
ISSN1310-7771
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Bibliographical note

Key words: Asteraceae (Centaureinae), Bulgaria, Centaurea, chromosome number, endemism, Greece, new species,
Rhaponticoides, Turkey

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