Gagea bulbifera

Gagea bulbifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Gagea
Species: G. bulbifera
Binomial name
Gagea bulbifera
(Pall.) Salisb.
Synonyms[1]
  • Ornithogalum bulbiferum Pall. 1773
  • Gagea polyphylla Steven
  • Stellaster bulbifer (Pall.) Kuntze
  • Hornungia bulbifera (Pall.) Rouy

Gagea bulbifera is an Eurasian species of plants in the lily family, widespread from Romania to Xinjiang.[1] It is native to Romania, Russia (North Caucasus, West Siberia Krai, Altay Krai), South Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Turkey, Xinjiang, Western Himalayas.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Gagea bulbifera is a bulb-forming perennial up to 60 cm tall. Flowers are yellow with green on the backs of each of the tepals.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Komarov, V.L. (ed.) (1935). Flora SSSR 4: 1-586. Izdatel'stov Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad.
  3. ↑ Nikitina, E.V. & al (eds.) (1951). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR 3: 1-148. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
  4. ↑ Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
  5. ↑ Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
  6. ↑ Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Conspectus Florae Caucasi 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
  7. ↑ Levichev, I.G. (2006). A review of the Gagea (Liliaceae) species in the flora of Caucasus. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 91: 917-951.
  8. ↑ Singh, N.P. & Sanjappa, M. (eds.) (2006). Alliaceae, Liliaceae, Trilliaceae & Uvulariaceae. Fascicles of Flora of India 23: 1-134. Botanical Survey of India, New Delhi.
  9. ↑ Zarrei, M., Zarre, S., Wilkin, P. & Rix, M. (2007). Systematic revision of the genus Gagea Salisb. (Liliaceae) in Iran. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 154: 559-588.
  10. ↑ Zarrei, M., Wilkin, P. & Chase, M.W. (2011). Gagea Salisb. (Liliaceae) in Iran: an updated species checklist. Phytotaxa 15: 33-43.
  11. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 120 腋球顶冰花 ye qiu ding bing hua Gagea bulbifera (Pallas) Salisbury, Ann. Bot. (Oxford). 2: 557. 1806.

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