Neogaya
Neogaya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.[2] It just contains one species, Neogaya simplex (L.) Meisn. [1] It can be found in Europe, in the Alps, the western and southern Carpathians, also former Yugoslavia, Belarus and the European parts of Russia. It is also found in Asia, within Kazakhstan, China, and western Siberia.
| Neogaya | |
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| Named as Ligusticum mutellinoides (the most common synonym) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Apioideae |
| Genus: | Neogaya |
| Species: | N. simplex |
| Binomial name | |
| Neogaya simplex (L.) Meisn. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
It is a perennial,[3][4] It grows between 5–30 cm (2–12 in) tall.[3][4][5] It has glabrous (smooth),[4][5] straight, erect stems, that are grooved or ribbed.[3][4][5] It has basal leaves,[3][4] which have a long petiole (leaf stalk).[3] They are linear-lanceolate,[3] or ovate shaped.[4] They are dark green with a purplish margin,[6] and measure 3–6 cm long and 2–5 cm wide.[3] In Europe, it blooms from June to August.[3] They are 2–5 cm (1–2 in) in diameter,[3][4] in compound umbels,[4] or 8-20 rounds of 3 lobed petals.[3] They are in shades of white or pinkish.[3][4] After flowering it produces a seed capsule or 'fruit', which like other members of the Apiaceae family, is polachenarium, a dry schizocarpic fruit consisting of monocarps separating from a longitudinal central axis (columella or carpophore), often remaining attached to the axis at maturity.[7] It is about 3–5 mm long,[3] and 3.2-3.6 mm wide,[5] with dark brownish lilca stripes.[6] It is broadly ellipsoidal,[3] or prolonged ellipsoid,[5] with a dorsal side that is convex with five winged ridges.[5]
Taxonomy
The genus name of Neogaya is in honour of Jaques Étienne Gay (1786–1864), a Swiss-French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist.[8] The Latin specific epithet of simplex means simple or unbranched from simplicissimus.[9] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. Vol.1 on page 104 in 1837.[1]
This species has rather large synonymy due to its complicated generic delimitation in Asiatic high mountainous Apiaceae family with similar lifeforms (see Pimenov, 1982; Lavrova et al., 1987; Pimenov & Kljuykov, 2001). The species was re-established as the genus Neogaya Meisn. during the revision of Middle Asiatic taxa of the Apiaceae (Pimenov, 1982, 1983).[10]
The genus is recognised by United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.[11] The 21 known synonyms of the species are listed in the taxobox (top righthand corner). It is accepted by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility,[12] and Tropicos.[13]
It has the common name of 'Small Alpine Lovage',[14] or 'Alpine lovage' with the most commonly known synonym of Ligusticum mutellinoides Vill.[4] In Slovakia, it is known as 'simple dill'.[3]
Distribution and habitat
Range
It is found in Europe, within the countries of Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Poland, Switzerland and Yugoslavia.[1][3] This is includes the mountains of the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkans.[4][3] It is found in Russia, within the regions of Altai Krai, Siberia (in Irkutsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yakutskiya, Buryatia, Chita Oblast) and the Far Eastern Federal District (in Khabarovsk Krai, Kamchatka Krai, Magadan Oblast).[1] It is found in Asia, within Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Xinjiang (in China).[1][3]
References
- "Neogaya simplex". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- "Neogaya Meisn. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- Ditӗ, Daniel (2 October 2011). "BOTANY.cz » LIGUSTICUM MUTELLINOIDES (Crantz) Vill. – koprníček jednoduchý / kôprovníček jednoduchý" (in Slovak). Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- Fritz Hans Schweingruber, Miroslav Dvorský, Annett Börner and Jiří Doležal Atlas of Stem Anatomy of Arctic and Alpine Plants Around the Globe (2020), p. 11, at Google Books
- Vít Bojnanský and Agáta Fargašová Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora: The Carpathian Mountains Region (2007) , p. 455, at Google Books
- O.K. Sokolov (NASA Technical Translation) Calculation of Viscosity in Molten Salts (Oxides),(1966), p. 108, at Google Books
- "Wild Geranium Has Popped!". cassi saari. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- 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. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
- Pimenov, M.G.; Kljuykov, E.V. (2005). "Additional Notes on the Genus Lomatocarpa Pim. (Apiaceae – Apioideae) and Related Taxa of High Asia". Rheeda. 15 (2): 113–118.
- "Genus Neogaya Meisn". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- "Neogaya simplex (L.) Meisn". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- "Tropicos | Name - Neogaya simplex Meisn". legacy.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- "Small Alpine Lovage (Pachypleurum mutellinoides, Pachyp... (#656743)". MeisterDrucke. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
Other sources
- Pimenov M.G., 1982. Two new genera of Umbelliferae from the group of Ligusticeae. Bjull. Moskovsk. Obsc. Isp. Prir. Otd. Biol. 87(1): 111–117. (in Russian, with Latin diagnoses).
- Pimenov, M.G. 1983. Umbelliferae. In: Vvedensky, A.I. (Ed.), Conspectus Florae Asiae Mediae 7: 167–322. Tashkent