Paulita (plant)
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| Paulita | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Paulita Soják |
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Paulita is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.[1]
Its native range is Central Asia and it is found in Kyrgyzstan and Tadzhikistan.[1]
The genus name of Paulita is in honour of Pavel Nikolaevich Ovczinnikov or Paul Ovczinnikov (1903–1979), who was a Russian botanist, specialist in grasses, who in 1945 was the Director of the Botanical Institute at the Academcy of Sciences in Tajikistan.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by Jiří Soják in Čas. Nár. Muz. Praze, Rada Přír. vol.150 on page 216 in (1981, publ. 1982).[1]