Iljinskaea
Genus of flowering plants
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Iljinskaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Iljinskaea planisiliqua, an annual plant native to the Caucasus, Iran, Pakistan, the western Himalayas, Central Asia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia, and to northwestern Greece and southwestern Bulgaria.[1]
| Iljinskaea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Tribe: | Isatideae |
| Genus: | Iljinskaea Al-Shehbaz, Özüdoğru & D.A.German |
| Species: | I. planisiliqua |
| Binomial name | |
| Iljinskaea planisiliqua | |
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The species was first described as Conringia planisiliqua by Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer and Carl Anton von Meyer. In 2021 Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz, Barış Özüdoğru, and Dmitry A. German placed it in the new monotypic genus Iljinskaea as Iljinskaea planisiliqua.[1]