Artedia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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Artedia is a genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae. Its only species is Artedia squamata, native to Cyprus, Western Asia and the Transcaucasus.{{cite web |title=Artedia L.. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39699-1|work=Plants of the World Online|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|year=2020|access-date=December 21, 2022}}

Carl Linnaeus named the species after his friend, the naturalist Peter Artedi.{{cite book |last=Beil |first= Karen Magnuson|author-link= |date= 2019|title= What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9K6NDwAAQBAJ|location=New York |publisher= W W Norton & Co |page= |isbn= 9781324004691}}

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