''Paulita'' is a genus of
flowering plants belonging to the family
Apiaceae.
Its native range is Central Asia and it is found in
Kyrgyzstan and
Tadzhikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centra ...
.
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.
The genus was
circumscribed by
Jiří Soják Jiří (; ''YI-RZHEE''), the Czech is a masculine given name, equivalent to English George, may refer to:
Given name
B
*Jiří Antonín Benda
*Jiří Baborovský
*Jiří Barta
*Jiří Bartoška
* Jiří Bicek
* Jiří Bobok
*Jiří Bubla
*Jiří ...
in Čas. Nár. Muz. Praze, Rada Přír. vol.150 on page 216 in (1981, publ. 1982).
Species
As accepted by
Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ...
:
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Paulita alaica
*''
Paulita alpina''
*''
Paulita ovczinnikovii''
References
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Apiaceae
Apiaceae genera
Flora of Kyrgyzstan
Flora of Tajikistan