Olgaea

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Olgaea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Carduoideae
Tribe: Cardueae
Subtribe: Onopordinae
Genus: Olgaea
Iljin
Synonyms
  • TakeikadzuchiaKitag. & Kitam.

Olgaea is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, having a typical thistle appearance. [1] [2] [3]

In 1922, Modest Mikhaĭlovich Iljin (a botanist from the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Russia) named the genus in honour of Olga Fedtschenko (a Russian botanist 1845–1921). [4]

Olgaea's genome consists of a diploid number of 2n=26 chromosomes. [5]

Species [6]

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References

  1. Iljin, Modest Mikhaĭlovich. 1922. Botanicheskie Materialy Gerbariya Glavnogo Botanicheskogo Sada RSFSR 3: 141
  2. Tropicos, Olgaea Iljin
  3. Flora of China Olgaea Iljin
  4. Komarov, V.L. (1935). "Akademiya Nauk SSSR (FLORA of the U.S.S.R.) Vol. IV". archive.org. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  5. López-Vinyallonga, Sara (2010). "Chromosome Numbers in the Genera Cousinia, Olgaea and Syreitschikovia (Compositae)". Folia Geobotanica. 45 (2): 201–214. doi:10.1007/s12224-009-9056-7. hdl: 10261/28827 .
  6. http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/Default.aspx?Page=AdvNameSearch Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Accessed Archived 2014-11-06 at archive.today