Aquilegia karatavica | |
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Preserved Aquilegia karatavica specimen | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Ranunculales |
Family: | Ranunculaceae |
Genus: | Aquilegia |
Species: | A. karatavica
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Binomial name | |
Aquilegia karatavica Mikeschin
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Aquilegia karatavica is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to Kazakhstan.[1]
The species is 15–20cm tall, occasionally up to 30cm, with fragrant blue petals.[2]
Aquilegia karatavica was described by the Soviet botanist Georgij Vladimirovic Mikeschin1911–1965)[3] in 1947, from the type specimen which he collected in 1936 and is now held in Moscow State University.[2]
(The species is endemic to the Karatau Mountains (from which the specific name karatavica is taken) of southern Kazakhstan, on north-facing rocky slopes at altitudes of around 1300m.[2]