Olgaea
| Olgaea | |
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| Olgaea tangutica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cynareae |
| Genus: |
Olgaea Iljin |
| Synonyms | |
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Takeikadzuchia Kitag. & Kitam. |
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Takeikadzuchia Kitag. & Kitam.
Olgaea is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the thistle tribe within the sunflower family, having a typical thistle appearance.
In 1922, Modest Mikhaĭlovich Iljin (a botanist from the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Russia) named the genus in honour of Olga Fedtschenko (A Russian botanist 1845–1921).
Olgaea's genome consists of a diploid number of 2n=26 chromosomes.
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