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Perovskia × Intermedia
''Salvia'' subgenus ''Perovskia'' is a group of species within the flowering plant genus ''Salvia'', which prior 2017 were treated as the separate genus ''Perovskia''. Members of the group are native to southwestern and central Asia. It includes the garden plant Russian sage (''Salvia × floriferior'').Seneta W, Dolatowski J, Zieliński J. ''Dendrologia'', ed. 13, p.730. The subgenus and former genus are named after the Russian general V. A. Perovski (1794-1857). ;Species # ''Salvia abrotanoides'' ( Kar.) Systma – Tibet, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, western Himalayas of northern India # '' Salvia bungei'' J.G.González, formerly ''Perovskia virgata'' Kudrjasch. – Tajikistan # '' Salvia karelinii'' J.B.Walker, formerly ''Perovskia angustifolia'' Kudrjasch. – Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan # '' Salvia klokovii'' J.B.Walker, formerly ''Perovskia linczevskii'' Kudrjasch. – Tajikistan # ''Salvia kudrjaschevii'' (Gorschk. & Pjataeva) Systma & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Karelin
Grigory Silych Karelin (January 1801 – 17 December 1872) was a Russian explorer and naturalist who travelled around Siberia and central Asia. Many species of plants have been described from specimens that he collected and some named in his honour. Karelin was born in Petersburg district where his father was a music conductor. Orphaned at the age of eight he joined the Cadet Corps, graduating in 1817 as a Second Lieutenant. He wrote some humorous verse on the secretary of war, Count Arakcheev, which led to his being posted in Orenburg on the border of Russia. Here he met Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, E. F. Eversmann and became interested in natural history. He began to collect plants from the Caspian region and sent specimens to other Russian botanists. In 1862, he travelled on the Kirghiz Steppes with Eversmann and in 1829 to the lower Volga along with Christopher Hansteen. In 1834, he established Novo Aleksandrovsk fort in Karasu Bay to keep nomadic raiders away from the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
