A new species of Lathyrus L. is described from Alamut, Kuhe Siahlan in Ghazvin province. The new species is named Lathyrus alamutensis which is a perennial plant with woody rootstock, many stems and pale red to purple flowers in living... more
A new species of Lathyrus L. is described from Alamut, Kuhe Siahlan in Ghazvin province. The new species is named Lathyrus alamutensis which is a perennial plant with woody rootstock, many stems and pale red to purple flowers in living state and whitish in dried state. It belongs to Lathyrus sect. Platystylis (Sweet) Bassler. The new species is very characteristic with two flap-like appendages above the claw of standard.
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New species Bupleurum gilanicum Mozaff. sp. nov. (fig. 1). Perennial, glabrous, rootstock thick, covered by remnants of dead petioles, more or less woody. Stem stout, ascending or erect, 50-60 cm high, leafy, conspicuously striate,... more
New species Bupleurum gilanicum Mozaff. sp. nov. (fig. 1). Perennial, glabrous, rootstock thick, covered by remnants of dead petioles, more or less woody. Stem stout, ascending or erect, 50-60 cm high, leafy, conspicuously striate, branched from near the base. All leaves thick, more or less coriaceous; basal leaves long petiolate, spathulate to orbicular, gradually passing over to oblong-elliptic leaves, margins entire, conspicuously cartilaginous, 8-nerved, secondary nerves reticulate; lower cauline leaves oblong-linear, gradually tapering to long petiole; upper cauline leaves sessile, oblong-linear; uppermost leaves and those subtending branches sessile, oblong-ovate, entire. Synflorescence paniculate. Bracts 5-6, ovate-elliptic, acuminate. Umbel rays 7-14, unequal, 1. 5-4. 5 cm long, thin. Bracteoles 5-6, similar to bracts, but smaller. Umbellule 15-20-flowered. Pedicels 2-3 mm long. Fruit (submatured) ca. 2×1. 5 mm, becoming brown, pruinose; ribs prominent. Stylopodium depressed...
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In October 2012, in a survey in order to study the flora of paddy fields and aquatic ecosystems of Gilan province (N Iran), we encountered an unknown species in “Aynak lagoon” in southeast of Rasht, covered surface of about 12 ha pond... more
In October 2012, in a survey in order to study the flora of paddy fields and aquatic ecosystems of Gilan province (N Iran), we encountered an unknown species in “Aynak lagoon” in southeast of Rasht, covered surface of about 12 ha pond densely. Comparing the flora of pond with previous years or adjacent ponds showed that, the new weed was dominant in interference with natural flora of aquatic ecosystems in the area and almost all indigenous flora of this pond were disappeared by the introduction of new weed. Studying weed morphology using scientific resources indicated that new plant was Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms. belonging to Pontederiaceae family (Holm et al. 1977) with common name Water Hyacinth. Some features makes it unique and easy to identify E. crassipes including: glossy green oval-shaped leaves have a waxy round 10–20 cm across, 50 to more than 100 cm height, floating above the water surface, bulbous spongy and inflated stalks, the feathery freely hanging roots and...
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The Apiaceae family includes some of the most known medicinal, food and spice species in the world some of which have been used by humans since antiquity. Local people in different regions use many species of the family but the... more
The Apiaceae family includes some of the most known medicinal, food and spice species in the world some of which have been used by humans since antiquity. Local people in different regions use many species of the family but the information regarding their uses is scattered. Traditionally used species are good candidates for bioprospecting. Combining traditional uses with phylogenetic data helps in selecting species for bioprospecting. In the present study, an ethnobotanical literature review was conducted to outline a comprehensive overview of the ethnobotanical importance of the family in Iran. To highlight the most ethnobotanically used groups in the family, ethnobotanical data were overlapped with generic phylogeny tree of the subfamily Apioideae. In total, 72 species (17.27%) from 42 genera (33.87%) were found to have ethnobotanical uses. Main uses of the family members were medicinal purposes (67.30%) followed by culinary (25%) and ethnoveterinary (11.11%) uses. Two categories ...
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Research Interests: Botany, Plant Biology, Taxonomy, Biology, Flora, and 4 moreIdentification Key, Genus, Apiaceae, and New Genus
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Research Interests: Botany, Plant Biology, Biology, Cytotaxonomy, Classification, and 7 moreArtemisia, Asteraceae, Genus, Karyology, Chromosome, Botanical, and Achillea
The taxonomic classification of subfamily Ornithogaloideae has been a subject of considerable controversy in recent decades. Ornithogalum is a relatively large genus in Ornithogaloideae including valuable ornamental and medicinal plants.... more
The taxonomic classification of subfamily Ornithogaloideae has been a subject of considerable controversy in recent decades. Ornithogalum is a relatively large genus in Ornithogaloideae including valuable ornamental and medicinal plants. These wild ornamentals, which are introduced into agriculture recently, are becoming increasingly popular as cut flowers, pot plants, and for gardening. This is the first molecular phylogenetic study that includes 10 of the 13 Ornithogalum species native to Iran. The aims of the present study were to use ITS and trnL-F sequences to explore phylogenetic relationships and to evaluate genetic resources of Ornithogaloideae naturally occurring in Iran, with an increased sampling of species to be compared to previous phylogenetic studies. In the present study, the combined tree resulted in the best-resolved phylogenetic relationships at the generic level. The results of Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian analysis of molecular data were compared to those from...
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This study conducted to determine relationship among and within Iranian Helichrysum species (Asteraceae). In this study based on ISSR markers, the highest percentage of ISSR loci polymorphism (54.7%) occurred in H. armenium. The highest... more
This study conducted to determine relationship among and within Iranian Helichrysum species (Asteraceae). In this study based on ISSR markers, the highest percentage of ISSR loci polymorphism (54.7%) occurred in H. armenium. The highest gene diversity over loci (1.224), Shannon’s Information Index (0.224%) and Expected Heterozygosity (0.142%) occurred in H. armenium (0.18) and the lowest of these parameters (0%) were observed in H. araxinum, H. graveolens, H. persicum and H. psychrophilum. The highest genetic similarity occurred between H. armenium and H. rubicundum (0.989), while the lowest was between H. polyphyllum and H. graveolens (0.213). The analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA), showed significant genetic variation among (24%) and within (76%) species. In morphological analysis traits such as indumentum, resting bud, achene length, achenial papillae, dimension of receptacle and form and apex of phyllaries were main diagnostic features. Results obtained from the morphologica...
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Research Interests: Plant Biology, Biology, Genome Size, Key words, Asteraceae, and 4 moreKaryotype, Chromosome, Ploidy, and Helichrysum
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The genus Tragopogon L. with about 110-150 species is distributed in Asia and Europe, while it is represented by 26 species in Iran. Hybridization and polyploidy occurs in the genus Tragopogon that bring about extensive morphological... more
The genus Tragopogon L. with about 110-150 species is distributed in Asia and Europe, while it is represented by 26 species in Iran. Hybridization and polyploidy occurs in the genus Tragopogon that bring about extensive morphological variation in its species. Tragopogon buphthalmoides (Asteraceae) is a perennial herb with common Persian name "Sheng e Iran" and "Sheng e cheshmgaavi" and is used as traditional medicine. Two varieties have been cited for this species in the country, but due to extensive morphological variability, it is difficult to delimit the two varieties. Therefore, the present study was performed to delimit these varieties by using both morphological and molecular markers (cpDNA and ISSRs). We also aimed to provide data on population genetics of the studied species due to its medicinal importance. In total 134 plant specimens of T. buphthalmoides were randomly collected from 16 geographical populations in 7 provinces. The studied plants were con...
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Tragopogon L. (Cichorioideae, Lactuceae, Scorzonerinae) is an Old World genus with 150 species, Rechinger in Flora Iranica divided this genus in 13 section and 37 species that 26 species of them are exist in Iran. Safavi et al. divided it... more
Tragopogon L. (Cichorioideae, Lactuceae, Scorzonerinae) is an Old World genus with 150 species, Rechinger in Flora Iranica divided this genus in 13 section and 37 species that 26 species of them are exist in Iran. Safavi et al. divided it into 26 species without sections in flora Iran. Despite the anatomical and molecular studies done around the world, the exact classification of this genus is not clear due to the high number of secret species, hybridization, polyploidy and rapid diversification. The morphology studies of 32 species and Molecular studies (ISSR, ITS, cp DNA) of 22 species of the genus Tragopogon was investigated . The purpose of these studies are classification and determination of interspecific relationship in this genus. Sections of Rubriflori, Sosnowskya, Chromopappus, Majores, Angustissimi, Krascheninnikovia in flora of Iranica are confirmed on the basis of morphometry and molecular data. Section of Profundisulcati in flora Iranica is confirmed on the base of mor...
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Tanacetum joharchii Sonboli & Kazempour Osaloo sp. nov. (AsteraceaeAnthemideae) is described and illustrated from the Khorasan province, northeast Iran. Tanacetum joharchii is a suffruticulose species from rocky limestone mountains in... more
Tanacetum joharchii Sonboli & Kazempour Osaloo sp. nov. (AsteraceaeAnthemideae) is described and illustrated from the Khorasan province, northeast Iran. Tanacetum joharchii is a suffruticulose species from rocky limestone mountains in Hezarmasjed and Binalud (Khorasan ...