''Sibbaldianthe'' 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

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 ...

. 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. Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea,

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

, South European Russia and Ukraine), to temperate Asia including

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(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 Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

, tropical Asia (within East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan and West Himalaya). The genus name of ''Sibbaldianthe'' 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 and published in V.L.Komarov (ed.), Fl. URSS Vol.10 on page 615 in 1941.

known species

According to Kew: *'' Sibbaldianthe adpressa'' *'' Sibbaldianthe bifurca'' *'' Sibbaldianthe imbricata'' *'' Sibbaldianthe moorcroftii'' *'' Sibbaldianthe orientalis'' *'' Sibbaldianthe semiglabra'' *'' Sibbaldianthe sericea''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17458627 Rosaceae Rosaceae genera Plants described in 1845 Flora of Romania Flora of Eastern Europe Flora of Siberia Flora of the Russian Far East Flora of Central Asia Flora of the Caucasus Flora of Afghanistan Flora of Iran Flora of China Flora of Mongolia Flora of Korea Flora of East Himalaya Flora of West Himalaya Flora of Nepal Flora of Pakistan