Muscari subg. Pseudomuscari

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Muscari subg. Pseudomuscari
Muscari azureum7.jpg
M. azureum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Genus: Muscari
Subgenus: Muscari subg. Pseudomuscari
(Losinsk.) D.C.Stuart [1] r
Synonyms [1]

PseudomuscariGarbari & Greuter

Muscari subg. Pseudomuscari is a subgenus of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae subfamily Scilloideae that has been treated as the separate genus Pseudomuscari. [1] Muscari species placed in the subfamily have flowers in shades of pale or bright blue, and are small plants with dense flower spikes or racemes. A feature which distinguishes them from other groups of Muscari is the bell-shaped flower which is not constricted at the mouth. One species, Muscari azureum (syn. Pseudomuscari azureum), is popularly grown in gardens as an ornamental Spring-flowering plant. [2]

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Systematics

The group of species now placed in Muscari subg. Pseudomuscari was separated off as a section within Muscari by A.S. Losina-Losinskaja in a 1935 publication and as a subgenus by D.C. Stuart in 1965, but neither name was validly published. The group was first formally described as a genus by Fabio Garbari and Werner Greuter in 1970. [3] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2023 concluded that Pseudomuscari was embedded in Muscari, and so reduced the genus again to a subgenus of Muscari, M. subg. Pseudomuscari. [1] As of September 2025, Plants of the World Online treated Pseudomuscari as a synonym of Muscari. [4]

Species

In 2023, Böhnert et al. placed eight species in M. subg. Pseudomuscari: [1]

ImageScientific nameDistribution
20130401Pseudomuscari azureum3.jpg Muscari azureum FenzlTurkey
Muscari coeleste FominE. Turkey
Muscari forniculatum FominNE. Turkey
Pseudomuscari inconstrictum kz1.jpg Muscari inconstrictum Rech.f.E. Medit. to NW. Iran
Muscari kurdicum Maroofi
Muscari parviflorum Desf.
Muscari chalusicum - Flickr - peganum.jpg Muscari pseudomuscari (Boiss. & Buhse) Wendelbo
(syn. Muscari chalusicumD.C.Stuart)		N. Iran
Muscari tavoricum Ravenna

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Böhnert, Tim; Neumann, Michael; Quandt, Dietmar & Weigend, Maximilian (2023). "Phylogeny based generic reclassification of Muscari sensu lato (Asparagaceae) using plastid and genomic DNA". Taxon. 72 (2): 261–277. doi:10.1002/tax.12864.
  2. ↑ Mathew, Brian (1987), The Smaller Bulbs, London: B.T. Batsford, ISBN   978-0-7134-4922-8 , p. 125 (as the Pseudomuscari group)
  3. ↑ Garbari, F. & Greuter, W. (1970), "On the Taxonomy and Typification of Muscari Miller (Liliaceae) and Allied Genera, and on the Typification of Generic Names", Taxon, 19 (3): 329–335, doi:10.2307/1219056, JSTOR   1219056
  4. ↑ "Pseudomuscari Garbari & Greuter". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 6 September 2025.
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