Scaligeria

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Apiales

Familia: Apiaceae
Subfamilia: Apioideae
Tribus: Pyramidoptereae
Genus: Scaligeria
Species (s.s.): S. alziarii – S. halophila – S. lazica – S. moreana – S. napiformis

Possibly belonging to Elaeosticta (Degtjareva et al., 2009) but circumscription not accepted by Hassler: S. alaica – S. allioides – S. bucharica – S. chitralica – S. conica – S. glaucescens – S. hirtula – S. knorringiana – S. korovinii – S. korshinskyi – S. kuramensis – S. nodosa – S. paniculata – S. platyphylla – S. polycarpa – S. samarcandica – S. transcaspica – S. tschimganica – S. vvedenskyi

Name

Scaligeria DC., Coll. Mém. 5: 70. 1829, nom. cons.

Type species: Scaligeria microcarpa DC., Coll. Mém. 5: 70. (1829) = Scaligeria napiformis (Sprengel) Grande, Boll. Orto Bot. Napoli 4: 188. (1914)

Homonyms

Scaligera Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 323, 601. Jul–Aug 1763. (≡ Aspalathus L. 1753.) nom. rej.

Note: Accepting Scaligeria s.s., as opposed to s.l. is optional and not mandatory, therefore the above is a taxonomic opinion, but which is generally used by local botanists.
References

De Candolle, A.P. 1829. Collection de Mémoires 5. Mémoire sur a famille des Ombelliféres: 70.
Degtjareva, G.V., Kljuykov, E.V., Samigullin, T.H., Valiejo-Roman, C.M. & Pimenov, M.G. 2009. Molecular appraisal of Bunium and some related arid and subarid geophilic Apiaceae-Apioideae taxa of the Ancient Mediterranean. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 160(2): 149–170. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00970.x ResearchGate Reference page.
Downie, S.R., Spalik, K., Katz-Downie, D.S. & Reduron, J.-P. 2010. Major clades within Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae as inferred by phylogenetic analysis of nrDNA ITS sequences. Plant Diversity and Evolution 128(1–2): 111–136. DOI: 10.1127/1869-6155/2010/0128-0005 PDF. Reference page.
Hand, R., Hadjikyriakou, G. & Zetzsche, H. 2012. Scaligeria alziarii (Apiaceae), a new sibling species of S. napiformis from Cyprus. Willdenowia 42(2): 199–207. DOI: 10.3372/wi.42.42205 Full text PDF Reference page.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Scaligeria. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Aug. 27. Reference page.
Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Scaligeria in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Aug. 27.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Scaligeria. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 27 2018.
Tropicos.org 2018. Scaligeria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Aug. 27.

Scaligeria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.[1] It is also in Tribe Pyramidoptereae.

Its native range is eastern Mediterranean (within Crete, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Greece and Yugoslavia) to Central Asia (within Albania, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Syria and Turkey) and Uzbekistan.[1]

The genus name of Scaligeria is in honour of Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France.[2] It was first described and published in Coll. Mém. Vol.5 on page 70 in 1829.[1]
Known species

According to Kew:[1]

Scaligeria alziarii Hand, Hadjik. & Zetzsche
Scaligeria halophila (Rech.f.) Rech.f.
Scaligeria korshinskii (Lipsky) Korovin
Scaligeria lazica Boiss.
Scaligeria moreana Engstrand
Scaligeria napiformis (Willd. ex Spreng.) Grande

References

"Scaligeria DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 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. Retrieved 1 January 2021.