Gagea Salisb.

Gagea (en), Gagée (fr), Gagée au sens large (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Liliales > Liliaceae

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, small, bulbiferous. Bulbs ovoid to globose, covered with a tunic, distally sometimes with a collar of persistent leaf bases, basally sometimes with bulbels. Stem usually simple. Leaves basal or also cauline, linear or filiform. Inflorescence usually umbellate, corymbose, or racemose, less often reduced to a solitary flower, basally usually subtended by a bract; bracteole 1. Flowers bisexual. Tepals 6, free, in 2 whorls, yellow or yellow-green, very rarely white or other color, persistent, ± indurescent and accrescent in fruit. Stamens 6, equal or 3 longer; filaments filiform or proximally widened and flat; anthers basifixed. Ovary 3-loculed; ovules many per locule. Style usually rather long; stigma capitate or 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, 3-angled, loculicidal, surrounded by enlarged, persistent tepals. Seeds many, globose to flat.
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Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Images

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Distribution

Gagea world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Algeria, Egypt, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, Pakistan, Palau, Poland, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Ukraine, United States of America, and Uzbekistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:24276-1
WFO ID wfo-4000015165
COL ID 8VXR4
BDTFX ID 84881
INPN ID 192666
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Upoxis Kharkevichia Gagea Lloydia Hemierium

Lower taxons

Gagea alashanica Gagea alberti Gagea alexeenkoana Gagea amblyopetala Gagea angrenica Gagea baschkyzylsaica Gagea bergii Gagea bithynica Gagea bornmuelleriana Gagea brevistolonifera Gagea bulbifera Gagea caelestis Gagea chomutovae Gagea chrysantha Gagea davlianidzeae Gagea dayana Gagea delicatula Gagea deserticola Gagea fedtschenkoana Gagea ferganica Gagea fibrosa Gagea foliosa Gagea gageoides Gagea germainae Gagea glacialis Gagea granatelli Gagea kunawurensis Gagea libanotica Gagea lutea Gagea micrantha Gagea paedophila Gagea pampaninii Gagea paniculata Gagea pauciflora Gagea pedata Gagea peduncularis Gagea podolica Gagea pusilla Gagea ramulosa Gagea reinhardii Gagea rigida Gagea sarysuensis Gagea schugnanica Gagea scythica Gagea shmakoviana Gagea sicula Gagea siphonantha Gagea staintonii Gagea stepposa Gagea talassica Gagea taschkentica Gagea tenera Gagea tenuissima Gagea x theobaldii Gagea toktogulii Gagea toppinii Gagea triflora Gagea trinervia Gagea ucrainica Gagea ugamica Gagea ulazsaica Gagea x vaga Gagea vaginata Gagea vegeta Gagea villosula Gagea vvedenskyi Gagea chinensis Gagea iranica Gagea daqingshanensis Gagea drummondii Gagea jispensis Gagea noltiei Gagea tisoniana Gagea lojaconoi Gagea calcicola Gagea aipetriensis Gagea alexejana Gagea altaica Gagea ancestralis Gagea calantha Gagea calyptrifolia Gagea capillifolia Gagea capusii Gagea caroli-kochii Gagea chabertii Gagea chanae Gagea charadzeae Gagea chitralensis Gagea chlorantha Gagea chloroneura Gagea circumplexa Gagea commutata Gagea confusa Gagea czatkalica Gagea divaricata Gagea dschungarica Gagea dubia Gagea durieui Gagea exilis Gagea glaucescens Gagea goljakovii Gagea gracillima Gagea graeca Gagea graminifolia Gagea gymnopoda Gagea gypsacea Gagea x haeckelii Gagea helenae Gagea hissarica Gagea humicola Gagea ignota Gagea incrustata Gagea intercedens Gagea jaeschkei Gagea japonica Gagea joannis Gagea juliae Gagea kamelinii Gagea kopetdagensis Gagea kuraiensis Gagea kuraminica Gagea longiscapa Gagea x luberonensis Gagea ludmilae Gagea lusitanica Gagea luteoides Gagea maeotica Gagea mauritanica Gagea michaelis Gagea minutiflora Gagea nakaiana Gagea polymorpha Gagea pomeranica Gagea praemixta Gagea pseudominutiflora Gagea reticulata Gagea reverchonii Gagea rubicunda Gagea rufidula Gagea rupicola Gagea subtilis Gagea sulfurea Gagea tadshikistanica Gagea takhtajanii Gagea transversalis Gagea x turanica Gagea wendelboi Gagea xiphoidea Gagea polidorii Gagea bezengiensis Gagea cuneata Gagea alexii Gagea alii Gagea baluchistanica Gagea bashoensis Gagea bowes-lyonii Gagea mergalahensis Gagea pakistanica Gagea punjabica Gagea rawalpindica Gagea rubinae Gagea spumosa Gagea utriculosa Gagea wallichii Gagea sivasica Gagea leosii Gagea quettica Gagea ularsaica Gagea antakiensis Gagea vanensis Gagea apulica Gagea omalensis Gagea angelae Gagea jensii Gagea huochengensis Gagea marchica Gagea moniliformis Gagea peruzzii Gagea pseudopeduncularis Gagea azutavica Gagea x absurda Gagea popovii Gagea schachimardanica Gagea setifolia Gagea filiformis Gagea afghanica Gagea hiensis Gagea neopopovii Gagea sarmentosa Gagea tesquicola Gagea uliginosa Gagea taurica Gagea artemczukii Gagea granulosa Gagea robusta Gagea minutissima Gagea multipedunculifera Gagea nabievii Gagea novoascanica Gagea olgae Gagea flavonutans Gagea daghestanica Gagea eleonorae Gagea menitskyi Gagea quasitenuifolia Gagea anisopoda Gagea kneissea Gagea nevadensis Gagea spathacea Gagea minima Gagea bohemica Gagea soleirolii Gagea lacaitae Gagea serotina Gagea villosa Gagea fragifera Gagea pratensis