Gypsophila platyphylla Boiss.
Creators: name: Falatoury, Atiye Nejad
name: Assadi, Mostafa
name: Ghahremaninejad, Farrokh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Gypsophila
Gypsophila platyphylla

description: <i>Gypsophila platyphylla</i> Boiss. (Figs 2; 3; 6) <i>Flora Orientalis</i>: Suppl. 87 (1888). <i>Gypsophila boissieriana</i> Hausskn. &amp; Bornm., <i>Beihefte</i> <i>zum Botanis-</i> <i>chen Centralblatt</i> 28 (2): 137 (1911), <b>syn. nov</b>. EXAMINED SPECIMENS. — <b>Iran.</b> Kurdistan province, nearly 15 km from Marivan to Sanandaj from the old-road, Gardan-e Garan, 1400-1850 m, 8.VII.1995, <i>Mozaffarian 74657</i>; 36 km from San- andaj to Kamiaran, Nashur valley, nearly 2000 m, 15.VI.1987, <i>Assadi 60602</i>; N E of Kuh-e Shahu, between Kamiaran and Marivan, before Dagaga village, 35°10’N, 46°30’E, 3.VII.2005, 1650 m, <i>Assadi &amp; Mehregan 89308</i>; Baneh to Marivan, neck Mount, between Sute and Sonnate to Saghez (between Hajimohammadan and Khorkhore), 2100 m, 30.VII.1992, <i>Mozaffarian 71644</i>; Mountain slope of Awallan, upper Nashoor village, South of Sanandaj, 45 km from Sanandaj, 2100 m, 16.VI.1986, <i>Hamzehee &amp; Khaledian 893</i>; Nearly 50 km N of Sanandaj, between Sarabghamish village and Kuh-e Chehelcheshmeh, 2100 m, 30.VII.1995, <i>Assadi 75259</i>. — West Azerbaijan province, Sardasht, 1500 m, 9.VII.1974, <i>Zehzad &amp; Siami 3029</i> (all the above specimens are preserved in TARI Herbarium); Marivan to Sanandaj from old road Gardane Garan, 1400-1850 m, 8.VII.1995, <i>Ghahreman. &amp; Mozaffarian 18306</i> (TUH); Sanandaj: 10 km to Divan-Darreh, 1600m, <i>Attar, Dadjou, Mehdigholi &amp; Okhovat 14285</i> (TUH); Marivan, 1800-2100 m, 4.VIII.1967, <i>Iranshahr &amp; Terme 60449</i> (IRAN); Bidjar to Sanandadj, 60 km to Sanandadj, 1800 m, 1.VII.1971, <i>Termeh 4597</i> (IRAN); <i>Haussknecht 182</i> (LE). DESCRIPTION Perennial. Woody at base, more or less glandular-pubescent in upper internodes. Stems few, erect, cream, thick, sometimes viscous, 75-100 cm high, branching usually above the middle; internodes 1.5-10 cm long. Lower leaves 30-80 × 7-17 mm, oblanceolate, tapering at base, acute to obtuse, light green sometimes; middle leaves 60-70 × 20-30 mm, ovate narrowed at base; upper leaves 10-50 × 2-17 mm, lanceolate, acute. Inflorescence lax, compound dichasia. Bracts 1.5-4 mm long, lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, ciliate, glandular- pubescent on the lower surface especially on midrib, scarious with a green or purple midrib. Pedicels 7-20 mm long, glandular-pubescent. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 6-10 mm long, incised from one third to the middle with narrow triangular acute teeth, glandular-pubescent, with crowded large crystals. Petals 11-17 mm long, narrow cuneate, truncate, white with purple veins. Stamens 10, unequal, longer than calyx. Ovary elliptic; styles two, parallel; ovules 16-24. Capsule ovate, about 4.5-6 mm long, up to 14 seeded; seeds 1.6-2 × 1.7-2 mm, reniform, with marginal hilum, with obuse to acute tubercles, with glossy surface. In terms of exomorphology, the surface of the seed is constructed of regularly arranged elongate cells with sinuate margins and convex periclinal walls. POLLEN MORPHOLOGY Monade, apolar, rounded polyhedral-spheroidal, 30.5-31.5 µm. Grains pantoporate. Pores 3.5-4 µm. in diameter, annulate. Distance between pores (without annulus) 5.5-6 µm. Annulus with granules, operculate. Ornamentation is nanoechinatenanoperforate (Fig. 6E, F).
description: Published as part of <i>Falatoury, Atiye Nejad, Assadi, Mostafa &amp; Ghahremaninejad, Farrokh, 2016, New species and new synonymy in the genus Gypsophila L. subgenus Pseudosaponaria Williams (Caryophyllaceae), pp. 257-265 in Adansonia 38 (2)</i> on pages 260-264, DOI: 10.5252/a2016n2a9, http://zenodo.org/record/4598947