Gagea sect. Lloydia (Salisb.) Peruzzi, J.

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 : 51

Gagea sect. Lloydia (Salisb.) Peruzzi, J. - M.Tison, A.Peterson & J.Peterson

Analyses of nrITS sequences resulted in a highly supported clade (BP 95, Figure 1) comprising L. serotina (L.) Reichenbach (1830: 102). and L. delicatula ( Zarrei et al. 2009) . Analyses of plastid sequences alone told another story. All former Lloydia species occurred as a polytomy with clade A, which comprises G. sect. Plecostigma , which is where they are placed here.