Savignya

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Savignya

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|Farsetia parviflora |(Delile) Spreng.

|Lunaria parviflora |Delile

|Savignya aegyptiaca |DC. }}

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Savignya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.{{cite web |title=Savignya DC. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60457779-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Savignya parviflora (Delile) Webb

It has 2 Accepted subspecies;

• Savignya parviflora subsp. globosa {{small|Jafri}} - Libya
• Savignya parviflora subsp. parviflora - (range is same as species)

Its native range is Northern Africa (within Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) to Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula (Afghanistan, the Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Sinai desert).

The genus name of Savignya is in honour of Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851), a French zoologist.{{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 parviflora means "with small flowers".{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}

The genus was first described and published in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Vol.7 on page 231 in 1821. The species was first published in Fragm. Fl. Aethiop.-Aegypt. on page 14 in 1854.