Drimia nagarjunae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. It was included in Drimia indica, but is accepted as a separate species. It is distributed in south India.[1]
| Drimia nagarjunae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Scilloideae |
| Genus: | Drimia |
| Species: | D. nagarjunae
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| Binomial name | |
| Drimia nagarjunae (Hemadri & Swahari) Anand Kumar[1]
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Urginea nagarjunae Hemadri & Swahari | |
Taxonomy
editDrimia nagarjunae was first described, as Urginea nagarjunae by Hemadri and Swahari in 1982.[1] They noted that it had been previously mistaken for Drimia indica, but differed in having a thicker scape, flowers closer together in the inflorescence and with tepals that are not reflexed. The specific epithet refers to Nagarjunakonda, near Nagarjuna Sagar Dam where the bulb is first identified; bulbs of the new species had been collected in a "medico-ethnobotanical survey".[2] Hemadri and Swahari's differentiation of D. nagarjunae from D. indica was initially not accepted, but it is now considered to be a separate species.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Drimia nagarjunae", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2017-08-05
- ^ Koppula Hemadri & Swahari Sasibhushan (1982), "Urginea nagarjunae Hemadri et Swahari a new species of Liliaceae from India" (PDF), Ancient Science of Life, 2 (2): 105–10, PMC 3336716, PMID 22556964, retrieved 2017-08-05