Patrinia

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.^[1] These are unassuming clump-forming perennial plants having thin, erect stems with few leaves and bearing a terminal inflorescence with yellow or white flowers.

Patrinia
P. gibbosa with Mt. Bandaisan, Fukushima pref., Japan, in the background
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Dipsacales
Family:	Caprifoliaceae
Subfamily:	Valerianoideae
Genus:	Patrinia Juss. (1807)
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Clarkeifedia Kuntze (1903) Fedia Adans. (1763), nom. rej. Gytonanthus Raf. (1820) Mouffetta Neck. (1790), opus utique oppr.

Species

14 species are accepted.^[1]

• 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.

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.^[2]