Drimia nagarjunae
| Drimia nagarjunae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Scilloideae |
| Genus: | Drimia |
| Species: | D. nagarjunae
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| Binomial name | |
| Drimia nagarjunae (Hemadri & Swahari) Anand Kumar[1]
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Urginea nagarjunae Hemadri & Swahari | |
Drimia nagarjunae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. It was included in Drimia indica, but is accepted as a separate species. It is distributed in south India.[1]
Taxonomy
Drimia nagarjunae was first described, as Urginea nagarjunae by Hemadri and Swahari in 1982.[1] They noted that it had been previously mistaken for Drimia indica, but differed in having a thicker scape, flowers closer together in the inflorescence and with tepals that are not reflexed. The specific epithet refers to Nagarjuna, reputed to be an early practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine; bulbs of the new species had been collected in a "medico-ethnobotanical survey".[2] Hemadri and Swahari's differentiation of D. nagarjunae from D. indica was initially not accepted, but it is now considered to be a separate species.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Drimia nagarjunae", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2017-08-05
- ^ Koppula Hemadri; Swahari Sasibhushan (1982), "Urginea nagarjunae Hemadri et Swahari a new species of Liliaceae from India" (PDF), Ancient Science of Life, 2 (2): 105–10, PMC 3336716, PMID 22556964, retrieved 2017-08-05
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