There exist 72 species, 2 subspecies and 12 varieties of the genus Dianthus L.(Caryophyllaceae) in Turkey. 34 species of them (47.2%) are endemic for Turkey [1-6]. While most of these endemic species are very local, 12 of them are identified only via type locality and 5 by two collections. They are more frequent on the territory within the Toros Mountain range, particularly in grid C4 and C5 except for the few local endemic species such as D. engleri which are observed out of this range.
Dianthus engleri is cushion-forming species which has spectabular flowers (Figure 1). The type locality of species is Karababa Mountain [1]. The second collection after Bornmueller’s type specimen is from Akdağ by Siehe in 1911 which is near Karababa. The description of the species was based on these two collections, therefore we thought that the description is may be inadequate. Therefore, in this study it is aimed to expand the description of the species.