Litwinowia

Litwinowia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Tribe: Chorisporeae
Genus: Litwinowia
Woronow
Species:
L. tenuissima
Binomial name
Litwinowia tenuissima
(Pall.) Woronow ex Pavlov
Synonyms[1]
  • Bunias tatarica Willd.
  • Euclidium tataricum (Willd.) DC.
  • Euclidium tenuissimum (Pall.) B.Fedtsch.
  • Litwinowia tatarica (Willd.) Woronow
  • Myagrum tataricum Poir.
  • Soria tenuissima Kuntze
  • Vella tatarica Pall.
  • Vella tenuissima Pall. (1776) (basionym)

Litwinowia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Litwinowia tenuissima, an annual which ranges from southern European Russia and the Caucasus through Central Asia and Iran to Mongolia, Xinjiang, Pakistan, and the western Himalayas.[1]

The species was first described as Vella tenuissima by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776. Jurij Nikolaewitch Woronow described the genus Litwinowia in 1931,[2] and in 1935 Nikolai Vasilievich Pavlov placed the species there as Litwinowia tenuissima.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Litwinowia tenuissima (Pall.) Woronow ex Pavlov". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  2. ^ "Litwinowia Woronow". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
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