Among the 44 Verbascum species distributed in Iran, 21 are endemic to Iran (47,7%). Most of endemic species (93%) belong to Iriano-Turanian (Iranian part), while 15 (34%) belong to Hyrcanian and 2 (4.5%) belong to Sudanian floristic region. *
Endemic species
1 V. intricatum Kuntze
2 V. aucheri (Boiss.) Hub.-Mor.
3 V. disjectum (Murb.) Hub.-Mor.
4 V. suworowianum Kuntze var. pseudopersicum (Murb.) Hub.-Mor.
5 V. farsistanicum (Murb.) Hub.-Mor.
6 V. austroiranicum Hub.-Mor.
7 V. lyprocarpum (Murb.) Hub.-Mor.
8 V. carmanicum (Bornm.) Hub.-Mor. *
9 V. gabrieliae (Bornm.) Hub.-Mor. (Syn: V. kermanense) *
10 V. pseudodigitalis Nábělek var. pseudodigitalis
— var. phoenicandrum Murb.
11 V. kochiiforme Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss.
12 V. hasarense Freyn & Bornm.
13 V. carduchorum Bornm.
14 V. phyllostachyum Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss.
15 V. sublobatum Murb.
16 V. stachydiforme Boiss. & Buhse
17 V. haussknechtianum Hub.-Mor. var. haussknechtianum
— var. fallacinum (Bornm.) Hub.-Mor.
18 V. azerbaijanense Sharifnia & Assadi *
19 V. scoparium Mozaff.
20 V. shahsavarensis Sotoodeh, Attar & Civeyrel — New Species: Sotoodeh et al., 2015. Verbascum shahsavarensis (Scrophulariaceae), a new species for Flora of Iran. Phytotaxa 203: 76-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.203.1.8
21 V. parsana Sotoodeh, Attar & Civeyrel — New Species: Sotoodeh et al., 2016. A new species of Verbascum L. (Scrophulariaceae) from the Gilan province (Iran), based on morphological and molecular evidences. Adansonia, 38: 127-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2016n1a9
Non-Endemic Species
22 V. orientale (L.) All.
23 V. nudicaule (Wydler) Takht. (Syn: V. straussii (Bornm.) Hub.-Mor.) **
— V. suworowianum Kuntze var. suworowianum
— var. acuminatum (Murb.) Hub.-Mor.
24 V. agrimoniifolium (K.Koch) Hub.-Mor. subsp. agrimoniifolium
25 V. phoeniceum L.
26 V. flavidum Freyn & Bornm.
27 V. bornmuellerfunum Hub.-Mor.
28 V. blattaria L.
29 V. macrocarpum Boiss.
30 V. oreophilum K.Koch var. Joannis (Bordz.) Hub.-Mor.
— var. oreophilum — New record: Sotoodeh et al., 2014. Verbascum oreophilum var. oreophilum and Verbascum cheiranthifolium var. asperulum (Scrophulariaceae), two new records for the flora of Iran. Phytotaxa 178: 205-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.178.3.6
31 V. assurense Bornm. & Hand.-Mazz. var. singaricum (Murb.) Hub.-Mor.
32 V. saccatum K.Koch
33 V. punalense Boiss. & Buhse
34 V. thapsus L.
35 V. erianthum Benth.
36 V. songaricum Schrenk subsp. songaricum
— subsp. subdecurrens Hub.-Mor. — New record: Sotoodeh et al., 2017. Kew Bulletin, 72: 24
37 V. speciosum Schrad.
38 V. cheiranthifolium Boiss. var. transcaspicum Murb.
— var. asperulum (Boiss.) Murb. — New record: Sotoodeh et al., 2014. Verbascum oreophilum var. oreophilum and Verbascum cheiranthifolium var. asperulum (Scrophulariaceae), two new records for the flora of Iran. Phytotaxa 178: 205-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.178.3.6
39 V. sinuatum L. var. sinuatum
— var. adenosepalum Murb.
40 V. gossypinum M.Bieb.
41 V. szovitsianum Boiss. var. szovitsianum
— var. adenothyrsum Murb.
42 V. alceoides Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss. var. alceoides
43 V. alepense Benth.
44 V. pyramidatum M.Bieb.
Total species number: 44
* Sotoodeh Arash (2015). Histoire biogéographique et évolutive des genres Verbascum et Artemisia en Iran à l’aide de la phylogénie moléculaire. Doctoral dissertation, Université de Toulouse, Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier.
** Sharifnia (2007) introduced a new species V. azerbaijanense and also she put V. straussii (Bornm.) Hub.-Mor. as synonym of V. nudicaule and also V. kermanense Hub.-Mor. as synonym of V. gabrieliae.