Mandragora turcomanica (solanaceae) in Iran: A new distribution record for an endangered species

Systematics and Biodiversity

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-180

  Akhani, Hossein ^a   Ghorbani, Abdol Basset ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Endangered species; Flora of Iran; Golestan; Irano Mediterranean link; Mandragora; Solanaceae

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010526793     PISSN: 14772000     EISSN: 14780933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477200003001105     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. AKHANI, H. 1998. Plant biodiversity of Golestan National Park, Iran. Stapfia 53, 1-411.
2. AKHANI, H. 1999. Studies on the flora and vegetation of the Golestan National Park, NE Iran III. Three new species, one new subspecies and fifteen new records for Iran. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 56(1), 1-31.
3. AKHANI, H. 2002. Notes on the flora of Iran: 1. Asparagus (As-paragaceae) and Nitraria (Zygophyllaceae). Edinburgh Journal of Botany 59(2), 295-302.
4. AKHANI, H. & ZIEGLER, H. 2002. Photosynthetic pathways and habitats of grasses in Golestan National Park (NE Iran), with an emphasis on the C4-grass dominated rock communities. Phytocoen-ologia 32(3), 455-501.
5. ANONYMOUS. 2001. Biodiversity assessment for Turkmenistan. USAID Central Asian Republics Mission, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Chemonics International Inc., Washington, DC. (http://www. biofor.com/documents/turkmenistan.pdf).
6. Atamuradov, Kh. I. 1999. The Red Data Book of Turkmenistan. 2: Plants. National Institute of Desert Flora and Fauna, Ashgabat.
7. FEINBRUN-DOTHAN, N. 1978. Mandragora. In Feinbrun-Dothan, N., Flora Palaestina 3. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, p. 167.
8. HAWKES, J.G. 1972. Mandragora. In Tutin, T.G., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Walters, D.A. (eds), Flora Europaea 3. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 199-200.
9. KURBANOV, D. 1994. Flora of Kopetdagh. In Fet, V. & Atamuradov, K.I. (eds), Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 105-128.
10. LINCEVSKIJ, I.A. 1955. Mandragora. In Shishkin, K. & Bobrov, E.G. (eds), Flora URSS 22, 75-77.
11. RECHINGER, K.H. 1989. Fifty years of botanical research in the Flora Iranica Area (1937-1987). In Tan, K. (ed.), Plant taxonomy, phytogeography and related subjects. The Davis & Hedge Festschrift, Edinburgh, pp. 301-349.
12. SCHONBECK-TEMESY, E. 1972. Solanaceae. In Rechinger, K.H. (ed.), Flora Iranica 100. Akademische Dmck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz.
13. Ungricht, S., Knapp, S. & Press, J.R. 1998. A revision of the genus Mandragora (Solanaceae). Bulletin of The Natural History Museum, Botany 28, 17-40.
14. Walter, K.S. & Gillett, H.J. (eds), 1998. 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, IUCN, The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge.