Savignya

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Orthokaryota
Cladus: Neokaryota
Cladus: Photokaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: CAM
Regnum*: Archaeplastida
Regnum: Plantae
Regnum*: Viridiplantae
Cladus: Streptophyta
Cladus: Phragmoplastophyta
Cladus: Embryophyta
Cladus: Polysporangiophyta
Divisio*: Tracheophyta
Cladus: Eutracheophyta
Cladus: Euphyllophytina
Cladus: Megaphylla
Cladus: Radiatopses
Cladus: Lignophyta
Cladus: Metalignophyta
Diviso*: Spermatophyta
Classis*: Angiospermae
Cladus: Mesangiospermae
Cladus: Eudicota
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Brassicales

Familia: Brassicaceae
Subfamilia: Brassicoideae
Tribus: Brassiceae
Genus: Savignya
Species: S. parviflora
Name

Savignya DC. Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 7: 231. (1821); et Syst. Nat. 2: 283.

monotypic taxon

References

Candolle, A.P de 1821. Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale 2: 283.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Savignya. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 8 2017. Reference page.
Koch, M.A. et al. 2017. Savignya in BrassiBase Tools and biological resources to study characters and traits in the Brassicaceae. Published online. Accessed: 2017 Feb. 8.
Tropicos.org 2017. Savignya. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 8 Feb. 2017.

Savignya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Savignya parviflora (Delile) Webb [2]

It has 2 Accepted subspecies;[1]

Savignya parviflora subsp. globosa 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).[2]

The genus name of Savignya is in honour of Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851), a French zoologist.[3] The Latin specific epithet of parviflora means "with small flowers".[4] The genus was first described and published in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Vol.7 on page 231 in 1821.[2] The species was first published in Fragm. Fl. Aethiop.-Aegypt. on page 14 in 1854.[1]
References

"Savignya parviflora (Delile) Webb". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
"Savignya DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.