Lipskya

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Lipskya

|parent_authority = Nevski

|species = insignis

|authority = (Lipsky) Nevski

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|Anidrum insigne |(Lipsky) Koso-Pol.

|Hippomarathrum insignis |(Lipsky) M.Hiroe

|Schrenkia insignis |Lipsky }}

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Lipskya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.{{cite web |title=Lipskya Nevski {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40205-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Lipskya insignis.{{cite web |title=Lipskya insignis (Lipsky) Nevski {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:844681-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 October 2021 |language=en}} It is also in tribe Pyramidoptereae.{{cite web |title=Genus Lipskya (Koso-Pol.) Nevski |work=GRIN Taxonomy |publisher=National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland |url=http://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=27650 |access-date=2022-12-30}}

Its native range is Central Asia. It is found in the countries of Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

The genus name of Lipskya is in honour of Vladimir Lipsky (1863–1937), a Ukrainian scientist, botanist as well as a member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in 1922–1928, its President) and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the Director of the Botanical Gardens of the Odessa University.{{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 insignis means significant. {{cite book | last=Lewis | first=Charlton | title=An Elementary Latin Dictionary | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | year=1891 | isbn=9780199102051}}

Both genus and species were first described and published in Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Series 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. Vol.4 on pages 271-272 in 1937.