''Potaninia'' is a
monotypic genus of
flowering plants belonging to the family
Rosaceae
Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera.
The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. Among the most species-rich genera are ''Alchemilla'' (270), ''Sorbus ...
.
It only contains one known species, ''Potaninia mongolica''
Maxim.
It is native to
Mongolia and
Inner Mongolia (in China).
The genus name of ''Potaninia'' is in honour of
Grigory Potanin
Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin (alt. Grigorij Potanin) (russian: Григорий Николаевич Потанин; 4 October 1835 – 6 June 1920) was a Russian ethnographer and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia, and was the ...
(1835–1920), a Russian
ethnographer and natural historian. The Latin
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
of ''mongolica'' means "coming from of Mongolia", where the plant was found.
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, séries 3, Vol.27 on page 465 in 1882.
References
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Rosaceae
Rosaceae genera
Plants described in 1882
Flora of Mongolia
Flora of Inner Mongolia