Published December 31, 2011 | Version v1
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Gagea (sect. Anthericoides) A. Terracc.

  • 1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW 9 3 DS, UK. & Current address: Green Plant Herbarium (TRT), Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, M 5 S 2 C 6, Canada (* e-mail for correspondence: m. zarrei @ utoronto. ca).
  • 2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW 9 3 DS, UK.
  • 3. School of Biological and Chemical Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, Mallet Street, WC 1 E 7 HX, UK.

Description

5. Gagea sect. Anthericoides A.Terracc., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 52: 24 (1905).

Lectotype (designated by Greuter 1970): Gagea graeca (L.) Irmisch = Anthericum graecum L. = Lloydia graeca (L.) Endl. ex Kunth.

Syn.: Lloydia sect. Lloydia ser. Efoveolatae Engl., Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 2: 11 (1900). Lectotype (designated here): Lloydia graeca = G. graeca. Lloydia subgenus Gageopsis Baker, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 14: 300 (1874), excl. Lloydia rubroviridis = G. rubroviridis. Lectotype (designated here): Lloydia graeca.

Putative synapomorphies:—basal leaves 2–4; tunic fibrous; inflorescence paniculate; filament glabrous; tepals white adaxially, roundly rotund to obtuse at the apex, withered after anthesis.

Species included:— Gagea graeca and G. trinervia (Viv.) Greuter

Notes

Published as part of Zarrei, Mehdi, Wilkin, Paul, Ingrouille, Martin J. & Chase, And Mark W., 2011, A revised infrageneric classification for Gagea Salisb. (Tulipeae; Liliaceae): insights from DNA sequence and morphological data, pp. 44-56 in Phytotaxa 15 on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.15.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4894104

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Liliales
Family
Liliaceae
Genus
Gagea
Taxon rank
section

References

  • Greuter, W. (1970) The taxonomic position of Lloydia graeca (Liliaceae) and related species. Israel Journal of Botany 19: 155 - 160.