Vegetation of Ali Mountain and Ziyaret Hill (Adiyaman)

Ali Mountain and Ziyaret Hill are in the province of Adıyaman. This study conducted between the years of 2010-2012. During the studying of syntaxonomic; 40 families, 111 genera and 151 taxa have been identified. Endemism rate of the study area is 7.3%. The vegetation of the area analyzed by the method of Braun-Blanquet (1932). As a result of this study, 84 minimal area analyzed and 8 associations have been identified. All the associations are new to science. Associations and their higher units are as follows: Sınıf. Quercetea ilicis Br.-Bl. 1947 Ordo. Quercetalia ilicis Br.-Bl. 1931 em. Rivaz- Martinez 1975 Alyans. Quercion calliprini Zohary 1962 1. Ceraso tortusae - Cotinetum coggyriaes ass. nova 2. Crataego monogynae – Rhetum coriariae ass. nova 3. Diantho anatolicii – Crataegetum monoginae ass. nova Ordo. Qerco – Carpinetalia orientalis Quezel, Barbero & Akman 1980 4. Convolvulus galaticii – Quercetum brantii ass. nova Sınıf. Astragalo Brometea Quèzel 1973 Ordo. Onobrycho armenae – Thymetalia leucostomi Akman,Ketenoğlu ve Quzel 1984 5. Scutellario orientalii – Hedysaretum santalinoidii ass. nova 6. Galio hierasolymitanii – Phragmitetum australidis ass. nova 7. Astragalo brachypetalii – Thymbretum spicatae ass. nova Alyans. Astragalo karamasici – Gysophilion eriocalycis Ketenoğlu, Quezel, Akman & Aydoğdu 1983 8. Astragalo schizopterii - Amygdaletum arabicae ass. nova