• Family : Liliaceae
  (Lily Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BACHNAG FAMILY (बचनाग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Liliaceae
• Synonym(s) : Ornithogalum bulbiferum Pall.; Stellaster bulbifer (Pall.) Kuntze; Stellaster polycephalus (Steven) Kuntze; Gagea polyphylla Steven; Hornungia bulbifera (Pall.) Rouy
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Gagea bulbifera (Pall.) Salisb.
• Common name : Bulbous Star of Bethlehem
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Steppes on hillsides, dry grassy slopes
• Key identification features : Plants 4--6 cm tall. Bulb ovoid, 3--6 mm in diam.; tunic brown, surrounded by numerous roots. Stem gray-white pubescent or glabrescent in fruit. Leaves basal and cauline; basal leaves usually 2, filiform, 3--7 cm × 0.5--0.8 mm; cauline leaves (2 or)3--5. Inflorescence (1 or)2--4-flowered, racemose. Tepals yellow adaxially, green abaxially, narrowly oblong or linear-spatulate, 6--9 × 1.5--2 mm. Stamens 4--7 mm. Style ca. 2 × as long as ovary. Capsule oblong, 3-angled, 4--6 × 2--3 mm. Seeds flat.
• Flower, Fruit : April
• Distribution :
  • Himachal Pradesh : Kullu district
• Native : Western Himalaya, Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Russia
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Photographs of Ashuthosh Sharma
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Gagea bulbifera. Downloaded on 7 December 2023.

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