''Savignya'' is a

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genus of

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s belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It only contains one known species, Savignya parviflora (

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) Webb It has 2 Accepted

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; * '' Savignya parviflora subsp. globosa'' - Libya * '' Savignya parviflora subsp. parviflora'' - (range is same as species) Its native range is Northern Africa (within Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) to Pakistan and the

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(Afghanistan, the Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Sinai desert). The genus name of ''Savignya'' is in honour of Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851), a French zoologist. The Latin

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of ''parviflora'' means "with small flowers". The genus was first described and published in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Vol.7 on page 231 in 1821. The species was first published in Fragm. Fl. Aethiop.-Aegypt. on page 14 in 1854.

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