Linaria qartobensis, from southern Iberian Peninsula, is here newly described, illustrated and compared with its morphologically closest relatives from L. sect. Supinae: L. ricardoi and L. orbensis. The new species is characterized by longer calyx lobes, corolla and spur, violet corolla with yellow-orangish palate, big and globose capsule, and seeds with black and prominently white-tuberculate disc and subentire wing. Linaria qartobensis is an endemic species growing on marly deposits from the Guadalquivir river basin, in the Córdoba province (Andalusia, Spain).

 Keywords: Antirrhineae, endemic plants, Iberian Peninsula, taxonomy

Linaria qartobensis Blanca, Cueto, J. Fuentes, L. Sáez & R. Tarifa sp. nov.

Etymology The specific epithet refers to the original iberian or phoenician name for the city of Córdoba (Qart-Oba), much predating the roman name Corduba, the homonym of the province where the species is found.

Gabriel Blanca, Miguel Cueto, Julián Fuentes, Llorenç Sáez and Rubén Tarifa. 2018. Linaria qartobensis sp. nov. (Plantaginaceae) from the southern Iberian Peninsula. Nordic Journal of Botany.  36(8) DOI:  10.1111/njb.01914