Galanthus reginae-olgaeOrph.

WFO wfo-0000768861 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 5 separate observations

Galanthus reginae-olgae, photographed by mrsnowdrop
fig. a mrsnowdrop, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-20 / obs. 171994461
Galanthus reginae-olgae, photographed by mrsnowdrop
fig. b mrsnowdrop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100144122
Galanthus reginae-olgae, photographed by mrsnowdrop
fig. c mrsnowdrop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100113650
Galanthus reginae-olgae, photographed by mrsnowdrop
fig. d mrsnowdrop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100271332
Galanthus reginae-olgae, photographed by Golfopolikayak
fig. e Golfopolikayak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174292054

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Galanthus reginae-olgae is native: Greece, NW. Balkan Pen., Sicilia GreeceNW. Balkan Pen.Sicilia
Native distribution of Galanthus reginae-olgae, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Greece GRC EUROPE
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sicilia SIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chianthemum olgae Kuntze
  • Galanthus corcyrensis (Beck) Stern
  • Galanthus elsae Burb.
  • Galanthus imperati f. australis Zodda
  • Galanthus nivalis f. corcyrensis Beck
  • Galanthus nivalis subsp. reginae-olgae (Orph.) Gottl.-Tann.
  • Galanthus octobrensis hort. ex Vilmorin
  • Galanthus olgae Orph. ex Boiss.
  • Galanthus olgae-reginae hort.
  • Galanthus rachelae Burb.
  • Galanthus reginae-olgae subsp. corcyrensis (Beck) Kamari

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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