| Patrinia | |
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| 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.  | 
| Species | |
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Patrinia is a genus of herbaceous plants in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae).[1] There are about 17 species[1] native to grassy mountain habitats in China, Siberia 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.
Selected species
- Patrinia gibbosa
 - Patrinia scabiosifolia
 - 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.[2]
References
- 1 2 "Patrinia", The Plant List (version 1.1), retrieved 2014-09-19
 - ↑ 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.
 
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