''Sibbaldianthe'' is a genus of

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s belonging to the family

Rosaceae Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. Among the most species-rich genera are '' Alchemilla'' (270), '' Sorbu ...

. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily. Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea,

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, 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,)

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, tropical Asia (within East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan and West Himalaya). The genus name of ''Sibbaldianthe'' is in honour of Robert Sibbald (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

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Sibbaldianthe adpressa ''Sibbaldianthe'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily. Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea, Rom ...

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Sibbaldianthe bifurca ''Sibbaldianthe bifurca'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae which can be found in Russian, Korean, and Mongolian steppes, grasslands and various slopes on an elevation of . It is also found on sandy coasts of North and Northea ...

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Sibbaldianthe imbricata ''Sibbaldianthe'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily. Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea, Rom ...

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Sibbaldianthe moorcroftii ''Sibbaldianthe'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily. Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea, R ...

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Sibbaldianthe orientalis ''Sibbaldianthe'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily. Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea, Rom ...

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Sibbaldianthe semiglabra ''Sibbaldianthe'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily. Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea, Rom ...

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Sibbaldianthe sericea ''Sibbaldianthe'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae. It is also in the Rosoideae subfamily. Its native range is from south eastern and eastern Europe (within East European Russia, Central European Russia, Crimea, Rom ...

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