Gagea chlorantha

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Liliales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Liliales

Gagea chlorantha (M.Bieb.) Schult. & Schult.f. in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 7: 551 (1829).

Basionym
- Ornithogalum chloranthum M.Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Caucas. 2: 264 (1808).
Homotypic
- Stellaster chloranthus (M.Bieb.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 715 (1891).
- Hornungia chlorantha (M.Bieb.) Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 12: 381 (1910).
Heterotypic
- Gagea aurea K.Koch, Linnaea 22: 229 (1849).
- Gagea damascena Boiss. & Gaill. in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 2, 4: 105 (1859).
- Gagea cespitosa Hausskn. ex Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 309 (1882).
- Gagea monticola Payne ex Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 209 (1882).
- Gagea caucasica Stapf, Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 50: 15 (1885).
- Stellaster damascenus (Boiss. & Gaill.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 715 (1891).
- Gagea chlorantha var. cyprica Pascher, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou, n.s., 19: 370 (1907).
- Gagea chlorantha var. tenuifolia Miscz., Trudy Bot. Sada Imp. Yur'evsk. Univ. 9(2): 78 (1908).
- Hornungia damascena (Boiss. & Gaill.) Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 12: 381 (1910).
- Gagea chlorantha var. hohenackeri Miscz., Fl. Caucas. Crit. 2(4): 176 (1912), nom. superfl.
- Gagea chlorantha var. bibulbosa Grossh., Fl. Kavkaza 1: 194 (1928).
- Gagea grey-wilsonii Rech.f., Pl. Syst. Evol. 153: 290 (1986).

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Caucasus North Caucasus, Transcaucasus. Regional: Western Asia Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Turkmenistan. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Schultes, J.A. & Schultes, J.H. 1829. Caroli a Linné equitis Systema Vegetabilium secundum classes ordines genera species. Cum characteribus, differentiis et synonymiis. Editio nova, speciebus inde ab editione XV. detectis aucta et locupletata. Vol. 7(1). xliii + 753 pp.. Sumtibus J.G. Cottae, Stuttgardtiae [Stuttgart]. BHL Reference page. p. 551.

Popov, M.G. 1935. Gagea chlorantha. Pp. 80 in Komarov, V.L. (ed.), Flora URSS (Flora Unionis Rerumpublicarum Sovieticarum Socialisticarum) IV. [Liliaceae – Orchidaceae] [in Russian]. 760 pp, Academia Scientiarum URSS, Mosqua, Leningrad. DJVU. English translation: 586 pp. BHL Reference page.
Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) 2006. Konspekt flory Kavkaza. Caucasian Flora Conspectus. Volume II [Liliopsida]. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae. 466 pp. ISBN 5-288-04040-0. DJVU Reference page.

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