Gagea sect. Gagea

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. Gagea

Peterson et al. (2008) mentioned c. 56 species in this section, which was well supported in the analyses conducted by Peterson et al. (2008) and is in clade B in analyses conducted by Zarrei et al. (2009; Figure 2). Although only one species of this section, G. lutea , was included in the pollen study of Zarrei & Zarre (2005) and anatomical analyses, it has distinctive characteristics. Members of the section are distributed in humid areas, particularly in Europe. The umbellate inflorescence and leathery bulb tunic are the main putative morphological synapomorphies of G. sect. Gagea , which we recognise here.