The flora of steppe surrounding Akyurt and Kalecik ( Ankara )

Abstract

The study area, occurs in Ankara Province. During the period 1992-1994, by evaluating the collected 620 herbarium specimens, 50 families, 169 genera, 326 species, 4 subspecies and 1 varieties were identified. The number of different taxa is 331. Twenty-four of the 331 taxa are new records for the A4 square. The number of endemic plant is 65 (19.6%). Aproximately one third, 79 (23.8 %) of the identified species are Irano-Turanian elements, 21 (6.34 %) are Mediterranean elements and 17 (5.13 %) are Euro-Siberian elements, while the remaning 214 (64.6 %) species are cosmopolitan or species whole phytogeographical region is undetermined.