Sibbaldianthe is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae.[1] It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily.

Sibbaldianthe
Sibbaldianthe bifurca in the Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
Tribe: Potentilleae
Subtribe: Fragariinae
Genus: Sibbaldianthe
Juz.
Synonyms

Schistophyllidium (Juz. ex Fed.) Ikonn.

Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea, Romania, South European Russia and Ukraine), to temperate Asia including Siberia (Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva and West Siberia,), Russian Far East (Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye and Sakhalin), central Asia (within Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), the Caucasus (North Caucasus and Transcaucasus,) Western Asia (Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey), China (within Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Qinghai, Tibet and Xinjiang,) Mongolia, Korea, tropical Asia (within East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan and West Himalaya).[1]

The genus name of Sibbaldianthe is in honour of Robert Sibbald (1641–1722), a Scottish physician and antiquary.[2] It was first described and published in V.L.Komarov (ed.), Fl. URSS Vol.10 on page 615 in 1941.[1]

known species

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According to Kew:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Sibbaldianthe Juz. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.