Kamelinia

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|genus = Kamelinia

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|species = tianschanica

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Kamelinia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It contains only one species, Kamelinia tianschanica.{{cite web |title=Kamelinia F.O.Khass. & I.I.Malzev {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:973658-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to Kazakhstan in Central Asia.{{cite web |title=Kamelinia tianschanica F.O.Khass. & I.I.Malzev {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:973659-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=8 October 2021 |language=en}}

The genus name of Kamelinia is in honour of Rudolf Vladimirovich Kamelin (1938–2016), a Russian botanist at the university in Saint Petersburg and was interested in plant systematics and distribution.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of tianschanica refers to coming from Tian Shan mountain range in Central Asia.

Both genus and species were first described and published in Uzbeksk. Biol. Zhurn. 1992 (Vol.2) on pages 50-51 in 1992.