Sieversia Explained

Sieversia is a genus of flowering plants of the family Rosaceae.^[1] It is also in the subfamily Rosoideae,^[2] and tribe Colurieae.^[3]

Its native range is the Russian Far East (within the federal subjects of Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye and Sakhalin including the Kuril Islands) to Japan and the Aleutian Islands.^[1]

The genus name of Sieversia is in honour of Johann August Carl Sievers (1762–1795), a German-born botanist who explored Central Asia, Siberia, and other Asian regions of the Russian Empire.^[4] It was first described and published in Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Vol.5 on page 397 in 1811.^[1]

Known species

According to Plants of the World Online:^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sieversia Willd. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 15 December 2021 . en.
2. D. Potter . T. Eriksson . R. C. Evans . S. Oh . J. E. E. Smedmark . D. R. Morgan . M. Kerr. K. R. Robertson . M. Arsenault. T. A. Dickinson . C. S. Campbell . amp . 2007 . Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae . . 266 . 1–2 . 5–43 . 10.1007/s00606-007-0539-9 . 2007PSyEv.266....5P .
3. Web site: Rosoideae. US National Germplast System. 6 June 2019.
4. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 1 January 2021.