Turczaninovia

{{Short description|Species of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox |image = |image_caption = |display_parents = 4 |genus = Turczaninovia |parent_authority = [[Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle|DC.]] |species = fastigiata |authority = (Fisch.) DC. }}

'''''Turczaninovia''''' is a [[monotypic genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s belonging to the family [[Asteraceae]].<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Turczaninovia'' DC. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:11412-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It only contains one known species, '''''Turczaninovia fastigiata'''''.<ref name="POWO" />

Its native range stretches from south-eastern [[Siberia]] (within the [[Federal subjects of Russia|Russian province]] of [[Chita Oblast]]), [[Far Eastern Federal District]] (within the provinces of [[Amur Oblast]], [[Khabarovsk Krai]] and [[Primorsky Krai]]), to China (including [[Inner Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]]), Mongolia, Korea, and Japan.<ref name="POWO" />

The genus name of ''Turczaninovia'' is in honour of [[Nikolai Turczaninow]] (1796–1863), a Russian botanist and plant collector who first identified several genera, and many species of plants.<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 [[binomial nomenclature|specific epithet]] of ''fastigiata'' means pointed derived from ''fastigiate''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}</ref> It was first described and published in [[Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis|Prodr.]] Vol.5 on page 257 in 1836.<ref name="POWO"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Astereae]] [[Category:Monotypic Asteraceae genera]] [[Category:Plants described in 1836]] [[Category:Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle]] [[Category:Flora of Siberia]] [[Category:Flora of Amur Oblast]] [[Category:Flora of Khabarovsk Krai]] [[Category:Flora of Primorsky Krai]] [[Category:Flora of China]] [[Category:Flora of Mongolia]] [[Category:Flora of Korea]] [[Category:Flora of Japan]]