Gagea pratensis (Pers.) Dumort. Fl. Belg.

Tekşen, Mehtap & Erkul, Seher Karaman, 2015, The synopsis of the genus Gagea (Liliaceae) in Turkey, Phytotaxa 230 (1), pp. 101-129 : 117-118

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scientific name	Gagea pratensis (Pers.) Dumort. Fl. Belg.
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Treatment

Gagea pratensis (Pers.) Dumort. Fl. Belg. View in CoL 140 (1827)

≡ Ornithogalum pratense Pers. in Usteri, Ann. Bot. 11: 8 (1794) ≡ Ornithoxanthum pratense (Pers.) Link, Handbuch View in CoL 1: 161 (1829) ≡ Gagea stenopetala (Fr.) Rchb. subsp. pratensis (Pers.) K.Richt., Pl. Eur. View in CoL 1: 195 (1890) ≡ Stellaster pratensis (Pers.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. View in CoL 2: 716 (1891) ≡ Gagea bracteolaris Salisb., Ann. Bot. (König & Sims) 2: 556 (1806) nom. superfl. = Ornithogalum stenopetalum Fr., Novit. Fl. Suec. Alt. : 87 (1828) = Gagea stenopetala (Fr.) Rchb., Fl. Germ. Excurs. : 107 (1830) = Gagea schreberi Rchb., Fl. Germ. Excurs. : 107 (1830) ≡ Ornithogalum schreberi Rchb. , Flora 5: 537 (1822) = Gagea equitans Wallr., Erst. Beitr. Fl. Hercyn. 2: 195 (1840) = Gagea composita Opiz, Seznam 45 (1852) = Gagea succedanea Griseb. & Schenk, Arch. Naturgesch. View in CoL 18: 358 (1852) = Gagea pratensis var. sicula Parl., Fl. Ital. View in CoL 2: 422 (1857) = Gagea pratensis subsp. gussonei A.Terracc., Bol. Soc. Aragonesa C., Nat. View in CoL 4: 231 (1905) ≡ Gagea gussonei (A.Terracc.) Stroh, Beih. Bot. Centralbl. View in CoL 57: 496 (1937).

Type: — Not designated.

Specimens seen: — TURKEY. Bursa: 11 km from reaching Uludağ village, 9 April 1975, T. Baytop , C. Brickey & B. Mathew 8521 ( K!) ; Uludağ, Karabelen , May 1945, M. Başarman s.n. ( ANK!) ; Kırklareli: Vize to Saray, 4 km from Saray , 20 March 1974, A. Baytop 27244 ( E!) ; Saray to Vize, 2.5 km beyond Saray , scrubs, 167 m, 17 March 2012, M. Tekşen 2896 & S. Karaman ( GAZI!) ; ibidem, 21 May 2013, M. Tekşen 2922 & S. Karaman ( AKSU!) .

Flowering time: — March–April.

Habitat: — Scrubs, meadows, under forest, wet places, 120–1700 m.

Distribution: — Euro-Siberian element. Turkey (North-west Anatolia and Turkey in Europe), from Central European Russia to all Europe, Morocco ( Govaerts 2015).

Note: — Gagea pratensis is prominently distinguished from the other species by having new bulb forming outside the tunic of the old bulb and without tunic, two opposite cauline leaves and presence of green tepals in the fruit.

Sect. Minimae (Pascher) Davlianidze, Not. Syst. Geogr. Inst. Bot. Thbilissiensis 30: 62 (1973) ≡ Gagea ser. [Reihe] Minimae Pasch., Lotos 52, 24: 113 (1904)

Type (lectotype designated by Davlianidze 1973: 62): — G. minima ( L.) Ker. Gawl.

In Turkey, sect. Minimae is represented by only one species.

References

Abbreviations

T	Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics
C	University of Copenhagen
B	Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet
K	Royal Botanic Gardens
M	Botanische Staatssammlung München
ANK	Ankara Üniversitesi
A	Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum
E	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
S	Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History
GAZI	Gazi Üniversitesi
L	Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University branch

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Liliopsida
Order	Liliales
Family	Liliaceae
Genus	Gagea