DemırKuş, NasipKoyuncu, Mehmet Ali AlıGül, Mesut2024-09-292024-09-292018https://doi.org/10.30616/ajb.401062https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/403596https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/10866This study was carried out onendemic plants collected from the Lake Van basin between 1994 and 2002. As aresult, 98 endemic taxa, 23 of which grow only in the Lake Van basin, weredetermined. Including the endemic taxa reported before from the region, a listof 259 endemic taxa belonging to 34 families and 117 genera were compiled.Twenty-three of 259 taxa listed, are unique to the Lake Van Basin. There are 249endemic taxa in the VANF Herbarium. The authors collected 98 of them. The other151 endemic taxa were determined by other researchers. Ten endemic taxa wererecorded from the literature. In addition to the features in the Flora ofTurkey, new features and variations of nine endemic taxa identified. Total 612 imagesand 200 pictures belonging to 98 endemic taxa scanned and transferred tocomputer. All images were uploaded to the web page, Virtual Herbarium of theLake Van Basin, which is also a part of VANF Herbarium.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArticle10.30616/ajb.401062832704035962