Drimia nagarjunae

Drimia nagarjunae is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. It was included in Drimia indica, but is accepted as a separate species. It is distributed in south India.[1]

Drimia nagarjunae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Genus: Drimia
Species:
D. nagarjunae
Binomial name
Drimia nagarjunae
(Hemadri & Swahari) Anand Kumar[1]
Synonyms[1]

Urginea nagarjunae Hemadri & Swahari

Taxonomy

Drimia nagarjunae was first described, as Urginea nagarjunae by Hemadri and Swahari in 1982.[1] They noted that it had been previously mistaken for Drimia indica, but differed in having a thicker scape, flowers closer together in the inflorescence and with tepals that are not reflexed. The specific epithet refers to Nagarjuna, reputed to be an early practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine; bulbs of the new species had been collected in a "medico-ethnobotanical survey".[2] Hemadri and Swahari's differentiation of D. nagarjunae from D. indica was initially not accepted, but it is now considered to be a separate species.[1]

References
  1. "Drimia nagarjunae", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2017-08-05
  2. Koppula Hemadri & Swahari Sasibhushan (1982), "Urginea nagarjunae Hemadri et Swahari a new species of Liliaceae from India" (PDF), Ancient Science of Life, 2 (2): 105–10, PMC 3336716, PMID 22556964, retrieved 2017-08-05


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