Gypsophila brachypetala Trautvetter 1873
Creators: name: Armağan, Metin
name: Özgökçe, Fevzi
name: Çelik, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Gypsophila
Gypsophila brachypetala

description: Gypsophila brachypetala Trautvetter (1873: 471) emend. Armağan (Figure 2).   
 Type (lectotype designated here):— TURKEY. Kars: Aschisch dade (near Tuzluca), 29 July 1871, Radde 493 (LE- 01024090!).   
 Description: —Caespitose perennial, glabrous, with a caudex at the base. Stems slender, numerous, erect-ascending, 17–40 cm high. Basal leaves imbricate, linear (23–33 × 1.5–2.2 mm), acute-mucronate, green, 3-nerved, scabrous at margins and midrib; cauline leaves 5–7 pairs. Inflorescence ± corymbose, 3–8-flowered. Bracts ovate–lanceolate (about 2.0 × 0.7–1.0 mm), scarious. Pedicels 1–6 mm long. Flower with 8–11 ovules. Calyx campanulate, green and red-suffused, with distinct calcium oxalate crystals, 3.0–4.5 × 2.5–3.0 mm; teeths ovate (1.5–2.4 × 1.0– 1.5 mm), obtuse-mucronulate, broadly scarious at margins. Petals pink, oblanceolate (5.0–5.5 × 1.8–1.9 mm), obtuse to retuse. Capsule subglobose-ovoid (2.8–3.0 × 2.0– 2.5 mm), shorter than the calyx. Seeds brownish-black, orbicular-reniform (1.4–1.6 × 1.3–1.5 mm) with obtuse tubercles.   
 Phenology: —Flowering and fruiting times in August.   
 Habitat and distribution: — Gypsophila brachypetala is endemic to Kağızman (Kars, Turkey) where it grows on steppe slopes at 1500–1600 m a.s.l. (Figure 5)   
 Conservation status: — Gypsophila brachypetala grows in one locality only where covers an area of about at most 5 km 2. Based on the criteria B1a, B1b(iii), B2b(iii, v), we propose to assess G. brachypetala as Critically Endangered (CR) (IUCN 2014).   
 Typification:— Gypsophila brachypetala was published by Trautvetter (1873: 471) through a diagnosis and the citation of one locality and a collector [“In Turciae provincia Kars, in monte Aschich-Dade (Radde)”]. We traced five specimens (at G and LE) which were collected at the locality Aşık Dede Mountain (Kağızman) by Radde. According to the Arts. 9.2, and 9.11 of the Melbourne Code (McNeill et al. 2012), a lectotypification is necessary. We here designate the LE specimen as the lectotype of the name Gypsophila brachypetala since it is that better preserved and showing more important morphological characteristics to fix the name.   
 Taxonomical notes: —The section Corymbosae Barkoudah (1962: 39) is represented in Turkey by Gypsophila brachypetala Trautvetter (1873:471), G. tenuifolia Bieberstein (1808: 319) and G. patrinii Seringe (1824: 353). The endemic G. brachypetala was described by Trautvetter (1873) on the basis of a Radde’s specimen collected from Kars in Turkey. No specimen has been collected from the same place since Radde. Our discovery (around of Akçay, a village of Kağızman) so represent the first record after Radde. Not in that the description of G. brachypetala was not sufficient, we amend it.   
  Selected specimens examined (Gypsophila brachypetala):  — TURKEY. Kars:Kağızman, fromAkçay to Cumaçay, 4. km (East of Aşık Dede mountain), roadsides and slopes, steppe, 40 o 05ˈ 28.52” N 43 o 16 ˈ 49.30” E, 1570 m, 12 Aug 2009, M. Armağan & F. Özgökçe (VANF-162324!). Ibid., 18 August 2010, Armağan & Fidan (VANF-162325!), Kars: Aschisch dade (near Tuzluca), 29 July 1871, Radde 493 (isolectotype G-00330215 photo!, isolectotype LE-01024089 photo!, isolectotype LE-01024091 photo!, isolectotype LE-01024092 photo!), Zonguldak: Kel Tepe, above Karabük, 1950 m, limestone rock on N. side of summit, 03 Aug 1962, Davis & Coode 38894 (E-00607642!) (Figure 3).
description: Published as part of Armağan, Metin, Özgökçe, Fevzi & Çelik, Ali, 2017, Notes on the genus Gypsophila (Caryophyllaceae) in Turkey, with a description of G. guvengorkii sp. nov., pp. 271-279 in Phytotaxa 295 (3) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/13689832