Alanya onion enters scientific literature
A new species of wild onion found in the Alanya district of Antalya has been introduced to the scientific world under the name 'Alanya onion.' The scientific article prepared following laboratory work has been published in the international peer-reviewed journal Phytotaxa.
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Ahmet Tıraş, who lives in Alanya and conducts amateur studies on plants, encountered a type of onion in the mountainous area around Söğüt Plateau that he thought was different.
Tıraş sent detailed photographs of the plant to Prof. Dr. Hasan Yıldırım, a faculty member at the Ege University Botanical Garden and Herbarium Research and Application Center.
As a result of the research, it was determined that the plant was not recorded in the literature.
PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL
The scientific article prepared following laboratory work was published in the international peer-reviewed journal Phytotaxa.
The plant introduced to the scientific world was given the Turkish name 'Alanya soğanı' (Alanya onion). The scientific name of the plant was designated as 'Allium ahmet-tirasii Yıldırım' in reference to its discoverer, Ahmet Tıraş.
Prof. Dr. Hasan Yıldırım stated that with the discovery of the Alanya onion, the number of endemic onion species in Turkey has risen to 113, and the total number of onion species in Turkey has reached 228.