Gagea pauciflora

Gagea pauciflora is an Asian species of plants in the lily family.[1] It is native to Mongolia, Russia (Primorye, Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai, Yakutia, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Altay Krai, Buryatia), and China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Tibet).[1][2][3]

Gagea pauciflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Gagea
Species:
G. pauciflora
Binomial name
Gagea pauciflora
(Royle) Greuter
Synonyms[1]

Gagea pauciflora is a bulb-forming perennial up to 30 cm tall. Flowers yellowish-green.[4][5][6] The specific epithet pauciflora, refers to the Latin term for 'few flowered'.[7][8]

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.
  3. Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  4. Flora of China, Vol. 24 Page 119 少花顶冰花 shao hua ding bing hua Gagea pauciflora(Turczaninow ex Trautvetter) Ledebour
  5. Turczaninow, Nicolai Stepanowitsch. 1854. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 27(2): 113 in Latin
  6. Ledebour, Carl Friedrich von. 1853. Flora Rossica 4: 143 in Latin
  7. Allen J. Coombes The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants, p. 106, at Google Books
  8. D. Gledhill The Names of Plants, p. 220, at Google Books


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