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Cynanchica nitida

Cynanchica nitida is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a subshrub native to Greece's east Aegean Islands and to Turkey.

Four subspecies are accepted.

  • Cynanchica nitida subsp. hirtella – western and central Turkey
  • Cynanchica nitida subsp. mytilinica – Lesbos
  • Cynanchica nitida subsp. nitida – northwestern Turkey (Uludağ)
  • Cynanchica nitida subsp. subcapitellata – northern Turkey

The species was first described as Asperula nitida by James Edward Smith in 1806. In 2020 it was placed in genus Cynanchica as Cynanchica nitida.

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