Gagea sect. Anthericoides A.Terrac.

Zarrei, Mehdi, Wilkin, Paul, Ingrouille, Martin J. & Chase, And Mark W., 2011, A revised infrageneric classification for Gagea Salisb. (Tulipeae; Liliaceae): insights from DNA sequence and morphological data, Phytotaxa 15, pp. 44-56 : 49

Gagea sect. Anthericoides A.Terrac.

This small section was not recognized as a distinct entity in any of the main twentieth-century classifications ( Pascher 1904, 1907, Stroh 1937). All species of this section were placed in G. sect. Platyspermum by Stroh (1937). Pascher (1904, 1907) placed G. trinerva (Viv.) Greuter (1970: 159) and G. graeca in Lloydia .

Peruzzi et al. (2008b) and Peterson et al. (2008) accepted this section as distinct. The former authors mentioned only two species ( G. trinerva and G. graeca ) in this section, but in the latter there were three species. Gagea sect. Anthericoides is sister to the rest of the genus in the analyses performed by Zarrei et al. (2009) and includes members that are endemic to the Mediterranean region. The possession of white flowers with tepals longer than 12 mm is a shared morphological characteristic of this section, which we recognise in this study.