''Ladyginia'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...
s belonging to the family
Apiaceae
Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus '' Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plant ...
.
Its native to parts of Central Asia. It is found in Afghanistan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The genus name of ''Ladyginia'' is in honour of Veniamin Fedorovich Ladygin (1860–1932), a Russian botanist who collected in East Asia.
It was first described and published in Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada Vol.23 on page 150 in 1904.
Known species
According to Kew:
References
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Apiaceae
Apiaceae genera
Plants described in 1904
Flora of Central Asia