Gagea Salisb. (Liliaceae) in Iran: an updated species checklist Author Zarrei, Mehdi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW 9 3 AB, UK. Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, Ontario M 5 S 1 B 1, Canada. E-mail for correspondence: m. zarrei @ utoronto. ca Author Wilkin, Paul Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW 9 3 AB, UK. Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, Ontario M 5 S 1 B 1, Canada. E-mail for correspondence: m. zarrei @ utoronto. ca Author Chase, Mark W. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW 9 3 AB, UK. Current address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, Ontario M 5 S 1 B 1, Canada. E-mail for correspondence: m. zarrei @ utoronto. ca text Phytotaxa 2011 2011-12-31 15 33 43 journal article 6275 10.11646/phytotaxa.15.1.5 d54724ea-8a90-466d-8af2-91dfdf89190b 1179-3163 4906927 16. Gagea gageoides (Zucc.) Vved., Fl. Turkmen . 1, 2: 261 (1932). Bulbillaria gageoides Zucc., Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 3: 229 (1843) . Type: LEBANON . Crescit in subalpinis umbrosis montis Libani, ibidem florifera lacta a clar, Roth & Erdl 4 ( holotype M!). = Gagea persica Boiss., Diagn . Pl. Orient. 7: 108 (1846) . Lectotype (designated by Levichev 2006 ): IRAN . in rupestribus prope ruinas u. Persepolis 15 April 1842 , Kotschy 237a (LE, isotype K!, paralectotype Aucher 404 BM!) . = Hornungia persica (Boiss.) Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 12: 381 (1910).