Cotoneaster meyeri Pojark.

(Fig. 7)

Botanicheskogo Instituta Imeni V. L. Komarova Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad [St. Petersburg] 17: 185 (Pojarkova 1955).

TYPUS. — Azarbaijan. In vicinitate urbis Kirovabad ( Gandsha) ad ripam dextram fluvii Kjurai-Czai s.d., Pojarkova 289 (holo-, LE) .

SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Iran. Province East Azerbaijan, Arasbaran protected area, Kalaleh village, Soulidareh, 38°57’1”N, 46°44’4”E, 800 m, 26.VII.1993, Ghahremani & Talebpur 2770 (Herbarium of Tabriz). — Province Mazandaran, 7 km after Pole-Zanguleh to Chalus, 36°13’28”N, 51°18’18”E, 2028 m, 24. V.2016, Raei Niaki & Mahdigholi 46883 (TUH) .

REMARK

C. meyeri is reported from north Iran in Mazandaran province (Fig. 7A). The species belongs to subgenus Chaenopetalum (Fryer & Hylmö 2009). This species is related to C. multiflorus Bunge (Browicz 1972), from which it differs for its black-purple fruits (vs light red to red), acute to obtuse (vs obtuse to rounded) and shorter leaves (15- 39 mm vs 20-55 mm), fewer- flowered inflorescence (5-8 vs 5-13) and indumentum of pedicel in fruit (glabrous vs thinly tomentose) (Fig. 7B). The geographical distribution of the species is Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan (Riedl 1969; Pojarkova 1971; Fryer & Hylmö 2009) and Iran.

NOTE

C. meyeri was not previously reported from the flora of Iran (Riedl 1969). Later, this species was reported there without locality information (Fryer & Hylmö 2009). In the framework of this paper, this species was collected again, and it is reported for Flora of Iran.