''Sibbaldia'' is a

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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 of the family

Rosaceae Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus '' Rosa''. The family includes herbs, shrubs, and trees. Most species are deciduous, but som ...

, with a circumpolar distribution, including the high Arctic. The

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is '' Sibbaldia procumbens''. It is also in the

Rosoideae The rose subfamily Rosoideae consists of more than 850 species, including many shrubs, perennial herbs, and fruit plants such as strawberries and brambles. Only a few are annual herbs. The circumscription of the Rosoideae is still not wholly ce ...

subfamily. The genus name of ''Sibbaldia'' is in honour of

Robert Sibbald Sir Robert Sibbald (15 April 1641 – August 1722) was a Scottish physician and antiquary. Life He was born in Edinburgh, the son of David Sibbald (brother of Sir James Sibbald) and Margaret Boyd (January 1606 – 10 July 1672). Educated at t ...

(1641–1722), a Scottish physician and

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. It was first described in 1753.

Range

Its native range is the temperate Northern Hemisphere. It is found in Europe; (within Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corsica, East European Russia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, North European Russia, Norway, Poland, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). In Asia; within

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(in Altai), the Russian Far East (within Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye and Sakhalin), central Asia (within Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan,) the Caucasus (North Caucasus and Transcaucasus), western Asia (Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq and Turkey),

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(within Manchuria, north-central, Qinghai, south-central, Tibet and Xinjiang),

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, eastern Asia (Japan, Korea and Taiwan), tropical Asia (the East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan and the West Himalaya). In America; Canada; (within the provinces of Alberta, Labrador, Newfoundland, Northwest Territorie, Nunavut, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Saskatchewan, and Yukon) and America; (within the states of Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming) and also in

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Species

Morphological and genetic studies showed that ''Sibbaldia'' as then

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was

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, with some species needing synonymizing or reassignment to (or from) other genera, including '' Sibbaldianthe'', ''

Chamaecallis ''Chamaecallis perpusilloides'' is a species of flowering plant belonging to the rose family, Rosaceae. It is a perennial that ranges from the Himalaya The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of t ...

'', and ''

Potentilla ''Potentilla'' is a genus containing over 500 species of Annual plant, annual, Biennial plant, biennial and Perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plant, herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family (biology), family, Rosaceae. Potentillas m ...

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accepted the following species: *'' Sibbaldia aphanopetala'' Hand.-Mazz. *'' Sibbaldia compacta'' (W.W.Sm. & Cave) Dikshit & Panigrahi *'' Sibbaldia cuneata'' Edgew. *'' Sibbaldia cuneifolia'' (Bertol.) Paule & Soják *''

Sibbaldia macrophylla ''Sibbaldia'' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Rosaceae, with a circumpolar distribution, including the high Arctic. The type species is ''Sibbaldia procumbens''. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily. The genus name of ''Sibbaldia' ...

'' Turcz. ex Murav. *'' Sibbaldia miyabei'' (Makino) Paule & Soják *'' Sibbaldia olgae'' Juz. & Ovcz. *'' Sibbaldia parviflora'' Willd. *'' Sibbaldia perpusilla'' (Hook.f.) Chatterjee *'' Sibbaldia procumbens'' L. *'' Sibbaldia semiglabra'' C.A.Mey. *'' Sibbaldia tridentata'' (Aiton) Paule & Soják *'' Sibbaldia trullifolia'' (Hook.f.) Chatterjee

Former species

Formerly accepted species include: *''Sibbaldia adpressa'' Bunge → '' Sibbaldianthe adpressa'' (Bunge) Juz. *''Sibbaldia micropetala'' (D.Don) Hand.-Mazz. → '' Potentilla micropetala'' D.Don *''Sibbaldia omeiensis'' T.T.Yu & C.L.Li → '' Potentilla omeiensis'' (T.T.Yü and C.L.Li) Soják *''Sibbaldia pentaphylla'' J.Krause → '' Potentilla clandestina'' Soják *''Sibbaldia perpusilloides'' (W.W.Sm.) Hand.-Mazz. → '' Chamaecallis perpusillodes'' (W.W.Sm.) Smedmark *''Sibbaldia phanerophlebia'' T.T.Yu & C.L.Li → probably ''P. micropetala'' *''Sibbaldia purpurea'' Royle → '' Potentilla purpurea'' (Royle) Hook. f. *''Sibbaldia sericea'' (Grubov) Soják → '' Sibbaldianthe sericea'' Grubov *''Sibbaldia sikkimensis'' (Prain) Chatterjee → '' Potentilla sikkimensis'' Prain *''Sibbaldia tenuis'' Hand.-Mazz. → ''

Potentilla tenuis ''Potentilla'' is a genus containing over 500 species of Annual plant, annual, Biennial plant, biennial and Perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plant, herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family (biology), family, Rosaceae. Potentillas m ...

'' (Hand.-Mazz.) Soják *''Sibbaldia tetrandra'' Bunge → '' Potentilla tetrandra'' (Hook.f.) Bunge

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3776116 Rosaceae genera Potentilleae Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Plants described in 1753