Patrinia Explained
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.
Species
14 species are accepted.
- Patrinia gibbosa
- Patrinia glabrifolia
- Patrinia heterophylla
- Patrinia × hybrida
- Patrinia intermedia
- Patrinia monandra
- Patrinia rupestris
- Patrinia saniculifolia
- Patrinia scabiosifolia
- Patrinia scabra
- Patrinia sibirica
- Patrinia speciosa
- Patrinia trifoliata
- Patrinia triloba
- Patrinia villosa
Fossil 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.[1]
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Notes and References
- Łańcucka-Środoniowa M.: Macroscopic plant remains from the freshwater Miocene of the Nowy Sącz Basin (West Carpathians, Poland) [Szczątki makroskopowe roślin z miocenu słodkowodnego Kotliny Sądeckiej (Karpaty Zachodnie, Polska)]. Acta Palaeobotanica 1979 20 (1): 3-117.
