Olgaea

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Olgaea
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Olgaea leucophylla in Inner Mongolia
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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 plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, having a typical thistle appearance. [1] [2] [3]

In 1922, Modest Mikhaĭlovich Iljin (from the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Russia) named the genus in honour of Russian botanist Olga Fedtschenko (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" . 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. Bibcode:2010FolGe..45..201L. 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