Seied Mansour Mirtadzadini - Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran.
Farideh Attar - Central Herbarium of Tehran University, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Tehran, Iran.
Mostafa Assadi - Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, P. O. Box. ۱۳۱۸۵-۱۱۶, Tehran, Iran.

Cousinia subpectinata is described and illustrated as a new species from Iran. This species is compared with its closest relative” C. rechingerorum”. Also description of section Plathyacanthae is completed with morphological characters of this species.

Cousinia, Platyacanthae, new species, Iran, endemic plants