Megadenia pygmaea Maxim. is a plant in the Brassicaceae family, order Brassicales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Megadenia pygmaea Maxim.

Megadenia pygmaea Maxim.

Megadenia pygmaea Maxim. is the only species in the Brassicaceae flowering plant genus Megadenia, an annual considered extinct in Buryatia.

Family
Genus
Megadenia
Order
Brassicales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Megadenia pygmaea Maxim.

Megadenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. This genus contains only one species, Megadenia pygmaea Maxim. Megadenia pygmaea is an annual plant native to subalpine regions of western and central China, Tibet, and the southern Russian Far East (Primorsky Krai). It is thought to be extinct in Buryatia.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Brassicales Brassicaceae Megadenia

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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