Prunus carduchorum

Prunus carduchorum (Persian: چغالک‎) is a rare species of wild almond native to Turkey, Iraq and Iran, near where the three countries meet. It is a subspinescent shrub 0.5-1.2 m tall. A native of the Eastern Anatolian montane steppe ecoregion,[4] it prefers to grow at 1500 to 3000 m above sea level on marl slopes, in degraded oak forests.[2] Genetically it groups with other scrubby almonds from the region.[5] Based on morphology it was thought to yield Prunus × pabotii when crossed with Prunus haussknechtii.[6]

Prunus carduchorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Subgenus: Prunus subg. Amygdalus
Species:
P. carduchorum
Binomial name
Prunus carduchorum
Synonyms[2]
  • Amygdalus carduchorum Bornm.[3]
  • Amygdalus carduchorum subsp. serrata Browicz
  • Amygdalus carduchorum var. glabra Bornm.
  • Amygdalus carduchorum var. macrocarpa E.Hadac & J.Chrtek

Etymology

The specific epithet, carduchorum, means "of the Carduchi, the wild tribesman of Kurdistan who so severely harried Xenophon and the Ten Thousand".[7]

References
  1. Kew Bulletin. Kew, England 19:229. 1965
  2. Yazbek, Mariana Mostafa (February 2010). Systematics of Prunus Subgenus Amygdalus: Monograph and Phylogeny (PDF) (PhD). Cornell University. Retrieved 18 October 2018. These [previously described subspecies] do not appear to have any taxonomic importance...
  3. Beih. Bot. Centralb. 58B. 257. 1938
  4. Grace, Andrew (29 September 2010). Introductory Biogeography to Bees of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East (PDF). Sussex, United Kingdom: Bexhill Museum. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-9537091-9-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  5. Vafadar, Mahnaz; Kazempour Osaloo, Shahrokh; Attar, Farideh (31 March 2014). "Molecular phylogeny of the genus Amygdalus (Rosaceae) based on nrDNA ITS and cpDNA trnS-trnG sequences". Turkish Journal of Botany. 38 (3): 439–452. doi:10.3906/bot-1303-46. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  6. Browicz, Kazimriez; Zohary, Daniel (June 1996). "The genus Amygdalus L. (Rosaceae): Species relationships, distribution and evolution under domestication". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 43 (3): 229–247. doi:10.1007/BF00123275. S2CID 28535529.
  7. Stearn, W.T. (2008) Botanical Latin p. 208, Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-627-9
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