Pseudomuscari

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Pseudomuscari
Muscari azureum7.jpg
P. azureum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Genus: Pseudomuscari
Garbari & Greuter
Synonyms [1]

M. subg. Pseudomuscari(Losinsk.) D.C.Stuart

Pseudomuscari is a genus of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. [2] They were formerly included in the genus Muscari (as the Pseudomuscari group, section or subgenus). Species of Pseudomuscari 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 Muscari is the bell-shaped flower which is not constricted at the mouth. One species, P. azureum , is popularly grown in gardens as an ornamental Spring-flowering plant. [3]

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Systematics

The genus was previously included in Muscari . The group of species now placed in 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, and the genus was first formally named by Fabio Garbari and Werner Greuter in 1970. [4] 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. [5]

Species

As of August 2019, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepted 7 species: [6]

ImageScientific nameDistribution
20130401Pseudomuscari azureum3.jpg Pseudomuscari azureum (Fenzl) Garbari & GreuterTurkey
Muscari chalusicum - Flickr - peganum.jpg Pseudomuscari chalusicum (D.C.Stuart) GarbariN. Iran
Pseudomuscari coeleste (Fomin) GarbariE. Turkey
Pseudomuscari coeruleum (Losinsk.) GarbariCaucasus
Pseudomuscari forniculatum (Fomin) GarbariNE. Turkey
Pseudomuscari inconstrictum kz1.jpg Pseudomuscari inconstrictum (Rech.f.) GarbariE. Medit. to NW. Iran
Pseudomuscari pallens-IMG 6532.JPG Pseudomuscari pallens (M.Bieb.) GarbariE. Caucasus

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards), "Asparagales: Scilloideae", Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, retrieved 2014-12-09
  3. ↑ Mathew, Brian (1987), The Smaller Bulbs, London: B.T. Batsford, ISBN   978-0-7134-4922-8 , p. 125 (as the Pseudomuscari group)
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ "Pseudomuscari Garbari & Greuter". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "Search for Pseudomuscari", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , retrieved 2019-07-31
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