{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = |image_caption = |genus = Savignya |species = parviflora |authority = (Delile) Webb |synonyms = {{species list |Farsetia parviflora |(Delile) Spreng. |Lunaria parviflora |Delile |Savignya aegyptiaca |DC. |Savignya parviflora ''subsp.'' aegyptiaca|Maire}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=species>{{cite POWO |id=288834-1 |title=''Savignya parviflora'' (Delile) Webb |access-date=2 October 2025}}</ref> }}
'''''Savignya''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Savignya'' DC. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60457779-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=20 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It only contains one known species, '''''Savignya parviflora''''' <small>(Delile) Webb</small> <ref name="POWO" />
It has three accepted subspecies;<ref name=species/> * ''Savignya parviflora'' subsp. ''globosa'' {{small|Jafri}} - Libya * ''Savignya parviflora'' subsp. ''longistyla'' {{small|(Boiss. & Reut.) Maire}} – Morocco to Libya * ''Savignya parviflora'' subsp. ''parviflora'' - Algeria to southwestern Pakistan
Its native range is Northern Africa (within Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) to Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula (Afghanistan, the Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula).<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Savignya'' is in honour of Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851), a French zoologist.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> The Latin specific epithet of ''parviflora'' means "with small flowers".<ref>{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}</ref> The genus was first described and published in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Vol.7 on page 231 in 1821.<ref name="POWO"/> The species was first published in Fragm. Fl. Aethiop.-Aegypt. on page 14 in 1854.<ref name=species/>
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Category:Brassicaceae Category:Monotypic Brassicaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1821 Category:Flora of North Africa Category:Flora of Western Asia