| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Authors: | Bogner, J., BOYCE P. E. T. E. R. |
| Journal: | Willdenowia. Mitteilungen aus dem Botanischen Garten und Museum Berlin-Dahlem. Berlin-Dahlem |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Start Page: | 149 |
| Pagination: | 153 |
| ISSN: | 0511-9618 |
| Keywords: | aroids, taxonomy, Zagros Mts |
| Abstract: | Eminium jaegeri from the Zagros Mts in the Bakhtiari province in northwestern Iran is described as a species new to science and illustrated. It belongs to the group with entire leaf blades but differs from all known species of this genus by the connate tube of the spathe and its flowering without leaves. |
| DOI: | 10.3372/wi.38.38109 |
| Full Text | When Mr Michael Jaeger sent us colour photographs of an unknown tuberous aroid from northwestern Iran in 2006, we were puzzled as it appeared to combine characters from two different genera: (1) a connate tube of the lower spathe reminiscent of most Biarum species, and (2) the short and relatively thick appendix reminiscent of Eminium. Although all known Eminium species have a convolute tube of the spathe, the spadix of our plant clearly shows the typical characters of the genus Eminium: a long axis with usually scattered, thread-like sterile flowers between the female and male zone of the spadix and a unilocular ovary with two ovules (instead of one as in Biarum). Also molecular data (N. Cusimano, unpublished, pers. comm.) confirms the inclusion of our new species in the genus Eminium. |
Eminium jaegeri (Araceae), a new species from northwestern Iran
Taxonomic name: