''Patrinia'' is a genus of herbaceous plants in the honeysuckle family (
Caprifoliaceae
The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade of dicotyledonous flowering plants consisting of about 860 species in 33 to 42 genera, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and easte ...
). It includes 14 species native to grassy mountain habitats from eastern European Russia to China,
Siberia
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, Korea, and Japan.
[ These are unassuming clump-forming perennial plants having thin, erect stems with few leaves and bearing a terminal ]inflorescence
In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ...
with yellow or white flowers.
Species
14 species are accepted.[
* '' Patrinia gibbosa''
* '' Patrinia glabrifolia''
* '' Patrinia heterophylla''
* '' Patrinia × hybrida''
* '' Patrinia intermedia''
* '' Patrinia monandra''
* '' Patrinia rupestris''
* '' Patrinia saniculifolia''
* '' Patrinia scabiosifolia''
* '' Patrinia scabra''
* '' Patrinia sibirica''
* '' Patrinia speciosa''
* '' Patrinia trifoliata''
* '' Patrinia triloba''
* '' Patrinia villosa''
]
Fossil record
One fossil
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fruit of †''Patrinia palaeosibirica'' has been extracted from borehole
A borehole is a narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally. A borehole may be constructed for many different purposes, including the extraction of water ( drilled water well and tube well), other liquids (such as petr ...
samples of the Middle Miocene
The Middle Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch (geology), epoch made up of two Stage (stratigraphy), stages: the Langhian and Serravallian stages. The Middle Miocene is preceded by the Early Miocene.
The sub-epoch lasted from 15.97 ± 0. ...
fresh water deposits in Nowy Sacz Basin, West Carpathians
The Western Carpathians () are a mountain range and geomorphological province that forms the western part of the Carpathian Mountains.
The mountain belt stretches from the Low Beskids range of the Eastern Carpathians along the border of Poland w ...
, Poland.[Łańcucka-Środoniowa M.: Macroscopic plant remains from the freshwater Miocene of the Nowy Sącz Basin (West Carpathians, Poland) zczątki makroskopowe roślin z miocenu słodkowodnego Kotliny Sądeckiej (Karpaty Zachodnie, Polska) Acta Palaeobotanica 1979 20 (1): 3-117.]
References
External links
Patrinia Genus
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Valerianoideae
Caprifoliaceae genera
Taxa named by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
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