Sarımsak Dağı ve Körkün Vadisi’nin (Pozantı, Adana/Türkiye) Florası

This research has been carried out to determinate the flora in the C5 square Sarımsak Mountain and Korkun Valley 2003- 2006. 78 families consisting of 315 genera and 652 taxa which contain 452 species, 129 subspecies and 71 variety, have been collected from this region the number of endemic taxa to Turkey is 135 (% 20.7). This distribution of these taxa in phytogeographic regions are as follows : (161) % 24.6 Irano-Turanians, (118) % 18.9 Mediterranean, (22) % 3.3 Euro-Siberians, (1) % 0.15 Euxines, (341) % 53,05 unknown and multiregional compounds. Two taxa belong to Pteridophyta, and 650 taxa to Spermatophyta divisio Gymnospermae subdivisio had 10 taxa and Angiospermae subdivisio had 640 taxa 552 of the Angiospermae are Dicotyledones and 88 Monocotyledones. The largest families according to their species number in the research area are as follow: Asteraceae (82), Fabaceae (70), Brassicaceae (51), Lamiaceae (46), Caryophyllaceae (34)’dir. The largest genera are Salvia (14), Astragalus (13), Centaurea (12), Silene (11), Euphorbia (11).