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Turkish Journal of Botany

Lamiaceae

2022

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An Ethnobotanical Review On Medicinal Plants Of The Lamiaceae Family In Turkey, Selami̇ Selvi̇, Ridvan Polat, Uğur Çakilcioğlu, Ferhat Celep, Tuncay Di̇rmenci̇, Zafer Füsün Ertuğ Jan 2022

An Ethnobotanical Review On Medicinal Plants Of The Lamiaceae Family In Turkey, Selami̇ Selvi̇, Ridvan Polat, Uğur Çakilcioğlu, Ferhat Celep, Tuncay Di̇rmenci̇, Zafer Füsün Ertuğ

Turkish Journal of Botany

Medicinal plants have been used by humans for the treatment of various diseases for thousands of years from past to present. Members of the Lamiaceae family are among the most preferred medicinal plants due to the wide variety of secondary components they contain, particularly essential oils. In this review, Master?s and PhD theses and books based on ethnobotanical studies investigated between 1960 and 2021 as well as internationally recognized databases (PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, Web of Science, SciFinder, Springer and Elsevier) were used to determine the medicinal uses of Lamiaceae taxa among the people in Turkey. As a result of …


Lamium Cappadocicum, A New Species From Central Anatolia, Turkey: Evidence From Molecular And Morphological Studies, Ferhat Celep, Fergan Karaer, Bryan T. Drew Jan 2022

Lamium Cappadocicum, A New Species From Central Anatolia, Turkey: Evidence From Molecular And Morphological Studies, Ferhat Celep, Fergan Karaer, Bryan T. Drew

Turkish Journal of Botany

Lamium is a taxonomically convoluted genus of about 34 species. Within Lamium, the L. garganicum species complex is particularly challenging. Here, based on morphological and molecular studies, Lamium cappadocicum Celep & Karaer sp. nova (Lamiaceae) is separated from L. garganicum and L. bilgilii and described as a new species, and L. garganicum subsp. rectum (= L. garganicum subsp. pulchrum) is resurrected. The new species is only known from the Hasan Mountain (Aksaray) in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Lamium cappadocicum is closely related to L. garganicum subsp. rectum but differs from it by its mat-forming caespitose habit, reniform (rarely ovate …