Biology:Petroedmondia

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Petroedmondia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Subfamily: Apioideae
Genus: Petroedmondia
Tamamsch.
Species:
P. syriaca
Binomial name
Petroedmondia syriaca
(Boiss.) Tamamsch.
Synonyms[1]
  • Colladonia syriaca Boiss.
  • Boiss. Smyrniopsis cachroides

Petroedmondia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Petroedmondia syriaca.

It is native to Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Turkey.[1]

The genus name of Petroedmondia is in honour of Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–1885), a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician.[3] The Latin specific epithet of syriaca means "coming from the Syria. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Fl. Iranica Vol.162 on page 167 in 1987.[2][1]

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