The new locally endemic genus Yazdana (Caryophyllaceae) and patterns of endemism highlight the high conservation priority of the poorly studied Shirkuh Mountains (central Iran)  

作　　者：Jalil Noroozi Atefeh Pirani Hamid Moazzeni Mohammad Mahmoodi Golshan Zare Alireza Noormohammadi Michael H.J.Barfuss Michael Suen Gerald M.Schneeweiss 

机构地区：[1]Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research,University of Vienna,Vienna 1030,Austria [2]Department of Biology,Faculty of Sciences,Ferdowsi University of Mashhad,Mashhad 91779-48974,Iran [3]Department of Botany,Research Center for Plant Sciences,Ferdowsi University of Mashhad,Mashhad 91779-48974,Iran [4]Botany Research Division,Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands,Agricultural Research,Education and Extension Organization(AREEO),Tehran 13185-116,lran [5]Department of Pharmaceutical Botany,Faculty of Pharmacy,Hacettepe Univ ersity,Ankara 06100,Turkey [6]Cologne Excellence Cluster for Cllular Stress Responses in Aging Associated Diseases(CECAD),University of Cologne,Cologne 50931,Germany

出　　处：《Journal of Systematics and Evolution》2020年第3期339-353,共15页植物分类学报（英文版）

基　　金：The Austrian Science Fund(FWF P28489 to GMS.and FWF P31898 to JN)is acknowledged for financing the first author in this study.

摘　　要：Although mountain ranges are often recognized as global biodiversity hotspots with a high level of endemism,diversity and biogeographic connections of isolated and weakly explored mountains remain poorly understood.This is also the case for Shirkuh Mts.in central Iran.Here,Yazdana shirkuhensis gen.&spec.nov.(Caryophylleae,Caryophyllaceae)is described and ilustrated from the high alpine zone of this mountain.Molecular phylogenetic analyses of nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data show that Y.shirkuhensis is related to Cyathophylla and Heterochroa(tribe Caryophylleae).The newly described genus and species accentuate Shirkuh Mts.as a center of endemism,which harbors a high number of narrowly distributed species,mostly in high elevations reaching alpine habitats.As this area is currently not protected,a conservation priority is highlighted for high elevations of Shirkuh Mts.

关 键 词：BIOGEOGRAPHY ENDEMISM genus novum phylogeny species nova taxonomy 

分 类 号：Q94[生物学—植物学]