''Olgaea'' is a
genus of
Asian flowering plants in the tribe
Cardueae within the family
Asteraceae, 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).
''Olgaeas genome consists of a diploid number of 2n=26 chromosomes.
; Species
http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/Default.aspx?Page=AdvNameSearch Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Accessed
References
Asteraceae genera
Cynareae
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