1. Dianthus anatolicus Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. Ser. 1(1): 22. 1843. Fl. Or. 1:489. 1867; Edgew. & Fl. Brit. Ind. 1:214. 1874; Williams in J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 29:457. 1893; Blatter, Beaut. Fl. Kashm. 1:49. 1928; Reeve in Davis Fl. Turk. 2:110. 1967; Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 242. 1972.
SHAHINA A. GHAZANFAR & YASIN J. NASIR
Tufted perennial, 10-30 cm with a branched woody stock. Stems many, erect to ascending, swollen at the nodes, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, hairs minute. Eave 7-30 (-40) x 1-2 mm, linear, usually congested basally, reducing in size upwards, glabrous with a ± sparsely ciliate margin, apex acute, midrib thick. Flowers solitary, very rarely 2. Bracteoles 4-6, 6-8 mm, ovate to narrowly ovate, apiculate with a membranous margin. Calyx 11-12 (-15) mm, glabrous, contracted above, teeth lanceolate, acute or mucronate, with a ciliate margin. Petals c. 15 mm, white to rose pink, limb 3-4 mm, subentire to dentate at apex, ebarbulate.
Fl. Per.: June-August.
Syntypes: Turkey, Manisa, in Sipyli, supra Magnesian, Boissier; Tauro, vii. 1842, Kotschy 86 (G; E, photo!).
Distribution: Turkey and Pakistan.
Found from 900-3500 m.
