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Olgaea

Olgaea is a genus of Asian plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, having a typical thistle appearance.

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Olgaea
Olgaea leucophylla in Inner Mongolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Carduoideae
Tribe: Cardueae
Subtribe: Onopordinae
Genus: Olgaea
Iljin
Synonyms
  • Takeikadzuchia Kitag. & Kitam.

Olgaea is a genus of Asian plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, having a typical thistle appearance.123

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

Species6
  • Olgaea altimurana (Rech.f.) Rech.f.
  • Olgaea baldschuanica (C.Winkl.) Iljin
  • Olgaea chodshamuminensis B.A.Sharipova
  • Olgaea eriocephala (C.Winkl.) Iljin
  • Olgaea lanipes (C.Winkl.) Iljin
  • Olgaea leucophylla (Turcz.) Iljin
  • Olgaea lomonossowii (Trautv.) Iljin
  • Olgaea longifolia (C.Winkl.) Iljin
  • Olgaea nidulans (Rupr.) Iljin
  • Olgaea nivea (C.Winkl.) Iljin
  • Olgaea pectinata Iljin
  • Olgaea petri-primi B.A.Sharipova
  • Olgaea roborowskyi Iljin
  • Olgaea spinifera Iljin
  • Olgaea tangutica Iljin
  • Olgaea thomsonii (Hook.f.) Iljin
  • Olgaea vvedenskyi Iljin
References

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 Deprecated link archived 2014-11-06 at archive.today