Scaligeria_(plant)

<i>Scaligeria</i> (plant)

Scaligeria (plant)

Genus of flowering plant

Scaligeria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.[1] It is also in Tribe Pyramidoptereae.

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Its native range is eastern Mediterranean (within Crete, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Greece and Yugoslavia) to Central Asia (within Albania, Lebanon, Libya, Israel, Syria and Turkey) and Uzbekistan.[1]

The genus name of Scaligeria is in honour of Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France.[2] It was first described and published in Coll. Mém. Vol.5 on page 70 in 1829.[1]

Known species

According to Kew:[1]

  • Scaligeria alziarii Hand, Hadjik. & Zetzsche
  • Scaligeria halophila (Rech.f.) Rech.f.
  • Scaligeria korshinskii (Lipsky) Korovin
  • Scaligeria lazica Boiss.
  • Scaligeria moreana Engstrand
  • Scaligeria napiformis (Willd. ex Spreng.) Grande

References

  1. [1]
    "Scaligeria DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  2. [2]
    Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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