Contributions to Turkish Flora: Taxonomic and distributional notes on the poorly known Noccaea (Brassicaceae) species Author Özgişi, Kurtuluş Department of Biology, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Turkey Author Özüdoğru, Bariş Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey Author Ocak, Atila Department of Biology, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Turkey text Phytotaxa 2018 2018-04-06 346 3 247 257 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.346.3.4 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.346.3.4 1179-3163 Noccaea aptera (Velenovskı 1904: 33) Meyer (1973: 462) . Basionym: Thlaspi apterum Velenovskı (1904: 33) . Type:— Bulgaria . Sliven , 1887, Skorph ( Holotype : PRC photo!). Glabrous ± glaucous, perennial herbs, ca. (5)10–20(35) cm tall, with several simple, leafy stems. Basal leaves entire, oblong to broadly ovate, petiolate, not rosulate, often violet beneath, ca. 9–60(85) × 4–15(25) mm; cauline leaves entire or sinuate-denticulate, amplexicaul with obtuse auricles, ovate-oblong, coriaceous, glaucescent, to ca. 5–17 mm , apex acute. Racemes dense, considerably elongating in fruit, ca. (6)13–70(84) –flowered, congested; pedicels horizontally spreading to ascending, to ca. 3.5 mm in flower, to ca. 16 mm in fruit. Sepals greenish, 1.6–3.2 mm with violet tips, papillose. Petals white, 3–7 × 0.7–2.7 mm , narrowly spatulate. Filaments ca. (0.3)0.6–1.7(2.1) mm, anthers ovate, ca. (0.5) 0.6–0.8 mm , yellow. Fruits narrowly obcordate, usually ca. (6.8) 7–9 mm with wing to ca. 1 mm . wide, apex truncate at immature and becoming retuse at maturity; angle at base. Style ca. (0.3)0.6–1.7(2.1) mm, always exceeding sinus. Seeds yellow to orange–brown, tuberculate, ca. (4)6 per locule, ca.1.15–1.6(1.8)–2.2 × 0.8–1.1 mm . Habitat: Open Quercus forest on calcareous substrates. Altitude: 400– 550 m . Flowering and fruiting time: March–April. General distribution: Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Macedonia , Montenegro , Serbia , Turkey . Examined specimens: Bulgaria . Sliven , Škorpil ( PRC photo!). Serbia , in m. Avala Serbiae bor, Pančić ( JE photo!). Turkey . A 1 Kırklareli : Kırklareli to Dereköy, Özhatay ( ISTE 27624!, HUB !) Kırklareli : 1. km. Dereköy Exit, Around Stone Quarry, 41°52.604′N , 27°19.838′E , 22 April 2016 , Özgişi 1130 ( OUFE !).