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An Iranian floristic link with Socotra inHypericum (Hypericaceae)

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Hypericum dogonbadanicum Assadi, a local species from theQuercus brandtii forests of the Zagros Mountains in south-western Iran, belongs to sect.Campylosporus (Spach)R. Keller and is most closely related to a Socotran endemic,H. socotranum Good subsp.smithii N. Robson. Despite the inclusion of these forests in the Irano-Turanian Element of the Iran flora byZohary (1963),H. dogonbadanicum appears to belong rather to the Mediterranean dwarf-shrub maquis type of community and therefore to be a member ofZohary's (1963) Mediterranean/Irano-Turanian group of Iranian species.—The key position of the Socotran endemics to the understanding of the inter-sectional relationships is discussed.

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Dedicated to Prof.K. H. Rechinger on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

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Robson, N.K.B. An Iranian floristic link with Socotra inHypericum (Hypericaceae). Pl Syst Evol 155, 89–92 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00936292

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