Olgaea

Olgaea is a genus of Asian plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, having a typical thistle appearance.^[1][2][3]

Olgaea
Olgaea leucophylla in Inner Mongolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Carduoideae
Tribe:	Cardueae
Subtribe:	Onopordinae
Genus:	Olgaea Iljin
Synonyms
Takeikadzuchia Kitag. & Kitam.

In 1922, Modest Mikhaĭlovich Iljin (from the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Russia) named the genus in honour of Russian botanist Olga Fedtschenko (1845–1921).^[4]

Olgaea's genome consists of a diploid number of 2n=26 chromosomes.^[5]

Species^[6]

• Olgaea altimurana (Rech.f.) Rech.f.
• Olgaea baldschuanica (C.Winkl.) Iljin
• Olgaea chodshamuminensis B.A.Sharipova
• Olgaea eriocephala (C.Winkl.) Iljin
• Olgaea lanipes (C.Winkl.) Iljin
• Olgaea leucophylla (Turcz.) Iljin
• Olgaea lomonossowii (Trautv.) Iljin
• Olgaea longifolia (C.Winkl.) Iljin
• Olgaea nidulans (Rupr.) Iljin
• Olgaea nivea (C.Winkl.) Iljin
• Olgaea pectinata Iljin
• Olgaea petri-primi B.A.Sharipova
• Olgaea roborowskyi Iljin
• Olgaea spinifera Iljin
• Olgaea tangutica Iljin
• Olgaea thomsonii (Hook.f.) Iljin
• Olgaea vvedenskyi Iljin