taxonID	type	description	language	source
4C03785500021305ACC0FC696A14CA0F.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — IRAN. Oshnaveieh, Dalanpar Mountain, Lat 35.824309 °; Lon 46.529649 °, 2750 m, 28 August 2018, M. A. Tabad 13939 (holotype HKS; isotype TARI) (Figs. 1 – 3). Herbs, perennial, aromatic, 6 – 35 cm tall; caudex clothed by papery base of old petioles. Stems to 5 mm in diameter, base ± sulcate, scabrid, with acinaciform and falcate trichomes. Leaves: basal and median leaves pinnately trifoliolate, sheaths ± inflated, strongly ribbed, covered with short acinaciform trichomes except basally; leaflets 3, lateral leaflets suborbicular, sessile, 1.2 – 5 × 1 – 3.5 cm, dentate or rarely lobate, terminal leaflet simple or 3 - lobed; petiolule to 4.5 cm long; blade suborbicular or ovate, 2.5 – 10 × 2.5 – 9 cm, base cordate, margin dentate; upper cauline leaves much smaller, lobate to pinnately trifoliate, sheath elliptic to oblong. Rays of inflorescence 4 – 8, unequal, 2.5 – 10 cm long in fruit, indumentum as on leaves and stem; bracts 0 – 2, ovate-oblong; bracteoles 0 – 2, oblong-lanceolate. Flowers non radiant, petals white or purple, abaxial indumentum as on leaves and stem; ovary scabrous, with dense long and short acinaciform or falcate trichomes; styles pubescent distally. Fruit obovoid, 12 × 10 mm, retuse, scabrous with rather dense long and short acinaciform and falcate trichomes; dorsal vittae unequal, filiform-subclavate, septate at the half their length, 1 / 2 – 3 / 4 as long as mericarp; commissural vittae 2, ± equal, about 1 / 2 as long as mericarp. Figure 1, Table 1. Additional specimens examined (paratypes): — IRAN. Oshnaveieh: Dalanpar Mountain, 2650 m, 11 July 2017, M. A. Tabad 13830 (HKS); Dalanpar Mountain, 2700 m, 21 July 2017, M. A. Tabad 14312 (HKS).	en	Tabad, Mohammad Aref, Maroofi, Hosein, Rastegar, Azad (2021): Heracleum kurdistanicum (Apiaceae; Tordylieae), a new subalpine species from Dalanpar Mountain, NW Iran. Phytotaxa 508 (1): 68-76, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.508.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.508.1.6
4C03785500021305ACC0FC696A14CA0F.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — Subalpine cold, snowy, humid rocky habitats at 2500 – 2900 m. Heracleum kurdistanicum is known only from small populations on Dalanpar Mountain, NW Iran close to the border with Turkey (Fig. 4). Phenology: — Flowering July to August, fruiting August to September.	en	Tabad, Mohammad Aref, Maroofi, Hosein, Rastegar, Azad (2021): Heracleum kurdistanicum (Apiaceae; Tordylieae), a new subalpine species from Dalanpar Mountain, NW Iran. Phytotaxa 508 (1): 68-76, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.508.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.508.1.6
4C03785500021305ACC0FC696A14CA0F.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The specific epithet refers to Kurdistan, the land from which the new species was collected.	en	Tabad, Mohammad Aref, Maroofi, Hosein, Rastegar, Azad (2021): Heracleum kurdistanicum (Apiaceae; Tordylieae), a new subalpine species from Dalanpar Mountain, NW Iran. Phytotaxa 508 (1): 68-76, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.508.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.508.1.6
