# Savignya

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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|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> 
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'''''Savignya''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic) genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s belonging to the family [Brassicaceae](/source/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](/source/Alire_Raffeneau_Delile)) [Webb](/source/Philip_Barker_Webb)</small> <ref name="POWO" />

It has three accepted [subspecies](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Marie_Jules_C%C3%A9sar_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](/source/binomial_nomenclature) 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

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