Muscari subg. Pseudomuscari
Muscari subg. Pseudomuscari is a subgenus of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae subfamily Scilloideae that has been treated as the separate genus Pseudomuscari. Muscari species placed in the subfamily have flowers in shades of pale or bright blue, and are small plants with dense flower spikes or racemes. A feature which distinguishes them from other groups of Muscari is the bell-shaped flower which is not constricted at the mouth. One species, Muscari azureum, is popularly grown in gardens as an ornamental Spring-flowering plant.
Systematics
The group of species now placed in Muscari subg. Pseudomuscari was separated off as a section within Muscari by A.S. Losina-Losinskaja in a 1935 publication and as a subgenus by D.C. Stuart in 1965, but neither name was validly published. The group was first formally described as a genus by Fabio Garbari and Werner Greuter in 1970. A molecular phylogenetic study in 2023 concluded that Pseudomuscari was embedded in Muscari, and so reduced the genus again to a subgenus of Muscari, M. subg. Pseudomuscari., Plants of [the World Online] treated Pseudomuscari as a synonym of Muscari.Species
In 2023, Böhnert et al. placed eight species in M. subg. Pseudomuscari:| Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
| Muscari azureum Fenzl | Turkey | |
| Muscari coeleste Fomin | E. Turkey | |
| Muscari forniculatum Fomin | NE. Turkey | |
| Muscari inconstrictum Rech.f. | E. Medit. to NW. Iran | |
| Muscari kurdicum Maroofi | ||
| Muscari parviflorum Desf. | ||
| Muscari pseudomuscari Wendelbo | N. Iran | |
| Muscari tavoricum Ravenna |