''Petrosimonia'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s belonging to the family
Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae ( ) is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus '' Amaranthus''. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, maki ...
.
It is also in the
Salsoloideae tribe.
It is native to Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania (in southeastern Europe), Central European Russia, Crimea South European Russia and Ukraine, (Eastern Europe),
Altay,
Irkutsk
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, Tuva and West Siberia, (in Siberia), North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, (in the Caucasus),
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (in Central Asia) and Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Mongolia, Syria and Turkey, (in Western Asia) and also
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...
in China.
The genus name of ''Petrosimonia'' is in honour of
Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussia, Prussian zoologist, botanist, Ethnography, ethnographer, Exploration, explorer, Geography, geographer, Geology, geologist, Natura ...
(1741–1811), a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia (1767–1810).
It was first described and published in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, Vol.4 (Issue 11) on page 52 in 1862.
Known species
According to Kew:
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Petrosimonia brachiata''
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Petrosimonia brachyphylla''
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Petrosimonia glauca''
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Petrosimonia glaucescens''
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Petrosimonia hirsutissima''
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Petrosimonia litwinowii''
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Petrosimonia monandra''
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Petrosimonia oppositifolia''
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Petrosimonia sibirica''
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Petrosimonia squarrosa''
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Petrosimonia triandra''
References
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Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae genera
Plants described in 1862
Taxa named by Alexander von Bunge