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.^[1]

Cynanchica nitida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Genus:	Cynanchica
Species:	C. nitida
Binomial name
Cynanchica nitida (Sm.) P.Caputo & Del Guacchio (2020)
Subspecies[1]
4; see text
Synonyms[1]
Asperula nitida Sm. (1806)

Four subspecies are accepted.^[1]

• Cynanchica nitida subsp. hirtella (Boiss.) P.Caputo & Del Guacchio – western and central Turkey
• Cynanchica nitida subsp. mytilinica (Ehrend.) P.Caputo & Del Guacchio – Lesbos
• Cynanchica nitida subsp. nitida – northwestern Turkey (Uludağ)
• Cynanchica nitida subsp. subcapitellata (Ehrend.) P.Caputo & Del Guacchio – northern Turkey

The species was first described as Asperula nitida by James Edward Smith in 1806.^[2] In 2020 it was placed in genus Cynanchica as Cynanchica nitida.^[1]