Ladyginia

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Ladyginia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.{{cite web |title=Ladyginia Lipsky {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40152-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=13 October 2021 |language=en}}

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.{{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}}

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:

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|Ladyginia afghanica |(Gilli) Pimenov & Kljuykov

|Ladyginia bucharica |Lipsky

|Ladyginia gigantea |(Leute) Pimenov & Kljuykov }}

References