Drimia nagarjunae

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]

Drimia nagarjunae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Genus: Drimia
Species:
D. nagarjunae
Binomial name
Drimia nagarjunae
(Hemadri & Swahari) Anand Kumar[1]
Synonyms[1]

Urginea nagarjunae Hemadri & Swahari

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 Nagarjunakonda, near Nagarjuna Sagar Dam where the bulb is first identified; 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
  1. "Drimia nagarjunae", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2017-08-05
  2. 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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