Azad RastegarKurdistan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Sanandaj, Iran. · Forests and Rangelands Research Department
Azad Rastegar
Ph.D. in Systematic Botany
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Mentha longifolia L. is a perennial plant belonging to the Lamiaceae family that has a wide distribution in the world. M. longifolia has many applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries due to its terpenoid and phenolic compounds. The phytochemical profile and biological activity of plants are affected by their genetics and ha...
Plant foraging is a millennia-old activity still practiced by many people in the Middle East, particularly in the Fertile Crescent region, where several socioeconomic, ecological, and cultural factors shape this practice. This study seeks to understand the drivers of plant foraging in this complex region characterized by highly diverse linguistic,...
Cousinia meyqanensis Rastegar, Attar & Mirtadz. (Asteraceae, Cardueae) is described and illustrated based on a specimen collected from Mt. Shahvar, Semnan Province, NE Iran. It is placed in the sect. Platyacanthae as it lacks appendiculate bracts and decurrent leaves. Cousinia meyqanensis is compared with the morphologically similar species C. plat...
Understanding the responses of vegetation to grazing exclusion along a salinity gradient is useful for the management of grasslands. We studied the responses of vegetation to grazing removal (ungrazed areas) in three semiarid regions with different soil salinity levels: non-saline, moderately saline and hyper-saline. The results showed that Bray-Cu...
Mentha longifolia L. is an aromatic medicinal plant species in the Lamiaceae family. This study aimed to assess the diversity of 20 M. longifolia accessions collected from the Zagros Mountain range in Iran and Iraq using morphological and biochemical traits, as well as start codon targeted (SCoT) molecular markers. The evaluation of 24 quantitative...
Tanacetum urmiense Tabad, Maroofi & Rastegar (2022: 112) (Asteraceae) was established on the basis of three collections from Dalanpar Mountain, north-western Iran. The lack of mature achenes led the authors to mistakenly describe this species as a new Tanacetum. In the protologue, the authors stated that the new Tanacetum was related to T. hololeuc...
Tanacetum kurdistanicum and T. urmiense (Anthemideae, Asteraceae), from Abidar Mountain, and Dalanpar Mountain, respectively, are hereby described as new to science and illustrated. Their morphology and ecology are discussed in detail and a distribution map is provided.
Lactuca adenophora Boiss. & Kotschy (Asteraceae), is reported here as a new record from the Nacarouz and Dalanpar Mountains for the flora of Iran. The geographical distribution of the new record and its distinguishing characters plus
its detailed photos are presented.
As the third biggest genus in Sapindaceae, Acer contains about 110 species which are mainly distributed in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. With nine native species in Iran, maples are considered to be among the key forest trees in the country. The aim of this study is to assess the potential of petiole traits for delimiting specie...
Geranium kurdicum Bornm. (Geraniaceae), is reported here as a new record from Dalanpar Mountain for the flora of
Iran. The geographical distribution of the new record and its distinguishing characters, plus its detailed photo are
presented.
Heracleum kurdistanicum (Apiaceae; Tordylieae), a new subalpine species from Dalanpar Mountain, NW Iran, is described and illustrated. Heracleum kurdistanicum has no morphologically close relatives, but is compared with two most similar species: H. argaeum and H. schelkovnikovii. They differ in habit, leaves, fruits, and number and size of rays.
Trifolium kurdistanicum S.Yousefi, Assadi & Ghaderi (Fabaceae) is one of the endemic species in the flora of Kurdistan province, distributed in the mountains of Bendol village in the southwest of Marivan. Based on IUCN criteria and categorizes, this species is assigned as Critically Endangered (CR). This species has only one population. Although is...
A new species, Cephalaria kurdistanica, from Chehel-Cheshmeh mountain, west of Iran, is here described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically related to C. microcephala Boiss., C. procera Fisch. & Avé-Lall., and C. kotschyi Boiss. & Hohen., but it differs in chiefly stem size, size and shape of capitula, the number of phyllaries, shape...
After a gap of 71 years of its original collection in Iraq, Crucianella parviflora is rediscovered from Kurdistan, Iran. A detailed morphometric treatment of the species is provided here. Its taxonomic relationships with the other related species are discussed as well. Our analyses on the conservation status of C. parviflora based on IUCN criteria...
As an introduction to the native species of maples in Iran, the description
and habitat characteristics of the species were prepared in two parts. In part I, the
characteristics of the species belonging to section Acer (including A. velutinum, A.
hyrcanum, A. mazandaranicum and A. monspessulanum) were described. Details
on the remaining species, Ac...
According to Flora Iranica (vol. 61: Aceraceae), ten species of Acer L. grow naturally on the Iranian plateau and six of them are located in Iran. The species reported from Iran in Flora Iranica include Acer velutinum, A. hyrcanum, A. monspessulanum, A. campestre, A. cappadocicum and A. platanoides
یکی از مؤلفه هاي اصلی ساختار توده جنگلی، نظم مکانی و موقعیت درختان در کنار یکدیگر است. الگوي مکانی
ها با اندازه گیري و تعیین موقعیت درختان در توده ها و با وارد کردن آنتوده ها در چهارچوبهاي تحلیلی،
اندازه شود. هدف از این تحقیق بررسی گیري می الگو یپراکنش گ ي اهان جنگلهاي یزاگرس م ان (شهرست ی ان سرپل
و استفاده از آن در راستاذهاب در استان کرمانشاه) ي ت...
Three new species, namely Cousinia boyerahmadica, C. deluensis and C. masulehensis (Asteraceae-Cardueae), are described and illustrated from Iran. The diagnostic characters of these new taxa are compared with their relatives. Their ecology, phytochoria and phenology are presented. Cousinia macrolepis is reported as new to Iran. Cousinia beckeri, wh...
Cousinia azmarensis (Asteraceae, Cardueae), an endemic species from Kurdistan region (Iraq), is described and illustrated, and its distinguishing characters are discussed. It is easily separated from closest relatives C. cymbolepis DC. by having 115–125 flowers per head (vs. 80–90), heads 3.5–5.5 cm in diameter (vs. 3–4 cm), purple corolla (vs. pin...
The Eurasian genus Tragopogon Linnaeus (1753: 789) comprises approximately 150 species (Mavrodiev et al. 2012, Bell et al. 2012). Twenty six species of Tragopogon were treated in Flora Iranica (Rechinger 1977) as occurring in Iran, of which 10 species were considered endemic to Iran. The same number of species was retained in the new Flora of Iran...