Patrinia
Genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family
Patrinia is a genus of herbaceous plants in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae). It includes 14 species native to grassy mountain habitats from eastern European Russia to China, Siberia, Korea, and Japan. These are unassuming clump-forming perennial plants having thin, erect stems with few leaves and bearing a terminal inflorescence with yellow or white flowers.
01Species
14 species are accepted.
- Patrinia gibbosa Maxim.
- Patrinia glabrifolia Yamam. & Sasaki
- Patrinia heterophylla Bunge
- Patrinia × hybrida Makino
- Patrinia intermedia (Hornem.) Roem. & Schult.
- Patrinia monandra C.B.Clarke
- Patrinia rupestris (Pall.) Dufr.
- Patrinia saniculifolia Hemsl.
- Patrinia scabiosifolia Link
- Patrinia scabra Bunge
- Patrinia sibirica (L.) Juss.
- Patrinia speciosa Hand.-Mazz.
- Patrinia trifoliata L.Jin & R.N.Zhao
- Patrinia triloba (Miq.) Miq.
- Patrinia villosa (Thunb.) Dufr.
02Fossil record
One fossil fruit of †Patrinia palaeosibirica has been extracted from borehole samples of the Middle Miocene fresh water deposits in Nowy Sacz Basin, West Carpathians, Poland.
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