The synopsis of the genus Gagea (Liliaceae) in Turkey Author Tekşen, Mehtap Author Erkul, Seher Karaman text Phytotaxa 2015 2015-10-08 230 1 101 129 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.230.2.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.230.2.1 1179-3163 13630814 Gagea antakiensis Kayıkçı, Ocak & Tekşen, Phytotaxa 170(4): 269–277 (2014) Type : — TURKEY . Hatay . Antakya , Serinyol , around the Serinyol-Yıldırım stream, edge of stream, open forest of Pinus brutia , macchie, 220 m , 4 February 2012 , Ocak & Kayıkçı 1331 ( holotype OUFE !; isotypes GAZI !, ANK !) . Specimens seen : — TURKEY . Hatay : Antakya , Serinyol , around the Serinyol-Yıldırım stream, edge of stream, open forest of Pinus brutia , macchie, 220 m , 5 March 2012 , Ocak & Kayıkçı 1351 ( GAZI !) ; Altınözü , Narlıca , rocky slopes, 301 m , 2 March 2012 , Ocak & Kayıkçı 1348 ( GAZI !) ; Serinyol , around the Yıldırım stream, edge of stream, open forest of Pinus brutia , macchie, 220 m , 12 February 2013 , M . Tekşen 2884 & Kayıkçı ( GAZI !) . Flowering time : — January–February. Habitat : — Wet places, clearings of Pinus brutia forest, macchie, rocky slopes, 200– 250 m . Distribution : — Endemic to Turkey (South Anatolia ). East Mediterranean (mt.) element. IUCN category : — Critically Endangered CR B2ab (i, ii, iv), C2a (i, ii). Note — Gagea antakiensis was described very recently ( Kayıkçı et al. 2014 ). It is closely related to G. lojaconoi Peruzzi (2008: 145) . However, the neck of the bulb tunics, the constant presence of suprabasal bulbils, and the shape with long neck separate G. antakiensis from G. chrysantha (Jan 1831: 5) Schultes & Schultes (1829: 545) species group ( G. lojaconoi , G. chrysantha , G. amblyopetala Boiss. & Heldr. in Boissier (1846: 107), and G. omalensis J.-M.Tison in Tison et al. (2013: 431) . These neck characteristics are also highly unusual in the whole section Didymobulbos ( Kayıkçı et al. 2014 ) . Gagea antakiensis can be easily distinguished from G. lojaconoi by having suprabasal bulbils during immature to mature ontogeny with a filiform neck up to 1–2 mm , pyriform, reticulate, black, located on the bulbs, cauline leaves longer than the inflorescence corymbose inflorescence, perigone segments elliptic and long hairy at base, flatly subtrihedral in outline with a slightly canaliculate adaxial side and a slightly convex abaxial side in basal leaves cross section (in G. lojaconoi , present in the whole ontogeny, cauline leaves shorter than the inflorescence, paniculate inflorescence, perigone segments subspathulate and glabrous, distinctly trihedral in outline with a deeply canaliculate adaxial side and strongly convex to almost carinate abaxial side in basal leaves cross section; Kayıkçı et al. 2014 ).