| Savignya | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Savignya |
| Species: | S. parviflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Savignya parviflora (Delile) Webb | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Savignya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. [2] It only contains one known species, Savignya parviflora(Delile) Webb [2]
It has three accepted subspecies; [1]
- Savignya parviflora subsp. globosaJafri - Libya
- Savignya parviflora subsp. longistyla(Boiss. & Reut.) Maire – Morocco to Libya
- Savignya parviflora subsp. parviflora - Algeria to southwestern Pakistan
Its native range is Northern Africa (within Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) to Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula (Afghanistan, the Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula). [2]
The genus name of Savignya is in honour of Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851), a French zoologist. [3] The Latin specific epithet of parviflora means "with small flowers". [4] The genus was first described and published in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Vol.7 on page 231 in 1821. [2] The species was first published in Fragm. Fl. Aethiop.-Aegypt. on page 14 in 1854. [1]