Biology:Sibiraea

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Short description: Genus of Rosaceae plants

Sibiraea
Sibiraea laevigata flower.jpg
Sibiraea laevigata
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Tribe: Spiraeeae
Genus: Sibiraea
Maxim.[1]
Species

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Sibiraea is a genus of flowering plants of the family Rosaceae, disjunctly found in the Balkans, Central Asia, and China. The type species is Sibiraea laevigata, which is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental garden plant.

Species

Some authorities feel that there are insufficient differences between the described species, and that they should all be collapsed into Sibiraea laevigata. Species currently accepted by The Plant List,[2] are as follows:

  • Sibiraea angustata (Rehder) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Sibiraea glaberrima K.S.Hao
  • Sibiraea laevigata (L.) Maxim.
  • Sibiraea tianschanica (Krasn.) Pojark.
  • Sibiraea tomentosa Diels

References

  1. Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada vi. (1879) 116, in obs. 213.
  2. "Sibiraea". The Plant List. http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Rosaceae/Sibiraea. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3488599 entry