Gagea pauciflora

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| image = Gagea pauciflora 197776125.jpg

| genus = Gagea

| species = pauciflora

| authority = Turcz.

| synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=307357 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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|Plecostigma pauciflorum Turcz. ex Trautv.

|Szechenyia lloydioides Kanitz

|Lloydia szechenyiana Engl.

|Gagea lloydioides (Kanitz) Pascher

|Gagea provisa Pascher

|Gagea pauciflora var. karoana Pascher

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Gagea pauciflora is an Asian species of plants in the lily family. It is native to Mongolia, Russia (Primorye, Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai, Yakutia, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Altay Krai, Buryatia), and China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Tibet).Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.

Gagea pauciflora is a bulb-forming perennial up to 30 cm tall. Flowers yellowish-green.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027664 Flora of China, Vol. 24 Page 119 少花顶冰花 shao hua ding bing hua Gagea pauciflora(Turczaninow ex Trautvetter) Ledebour][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44118497#page/663/mode/1up Turczaninow, Nicolai Stepanowitsch. 1854. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 27(2): 113] in Latin[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6028753#page/169/mode/1up Ledebour, Carl Friedrich von. 1853. Flora Rossica 4: 143] in Latin

The specific epithet pauciflora, refers to the Latin term for 'few flowered'.Allen J. Coombes {{google books|capqDQYT_VYC&|The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants|page=106}}D. Gledhill {{Google books|NJ6PyhVuecwC|The Names of Plants|page=220}}