Lipskya

Lipskya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.[1] It only contains one known species, Lipskya insignis.[2] It is also in tribe Pyramidoptereae.[3]

Lipskya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Subfamily: Apioideae
Tribe: Pyramidoptereae
Genus: Lipskya
Nevski
Species:
L. insignis
Binomial name
Lipskya insignis
(Lipsky) Nevski
Synonyms
  • Anidrum insigne (Lipsky) Koso-Pol.
  • Hippomarathrum insignis (Lipsky) M.Hiroe
  • Schrenkia insignis Lipsky

Its native range is Central Asia. It is found in the countries of Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.[2]

The genus name of Lipskya is in honour of Vladimir Lipsky (1863–1937), a Ukrainian scientist, botanist as well as a member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in 1922–1928, its President) and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the Director of the Botanical Gardens of the Odessa University.[4] The Latin specific epithet of insignis means significant.[5] Both genus and species were first described and published in Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Series 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. Vol.4 on pages 271-272 in 1937.[2]

References
  1. "Lipskya Nevski | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  2. "Lipskya insignis (Lipsky) Nevski | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  3. "Genus Lipskya (Koso-Pol.) Nevski". GRIN Taxonomy. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. Lewis, Charlton (1891). An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199102051.
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