# Petrosimonia

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{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Petrosimonia monandra as Polycnemum monandrum.jpg
|image_caption =Petrosimonia monandra
|taxon = Petrosimonia
|authority = [Bunge](/source/Alexander_von_Bunge)
}}
'''''Petrosimonia''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s belonging to the family [Amaranthaceae](/source/Amaranthaceae).<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Petrosimonia'' Bunge {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6961-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=19 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It is also in the [Salsoloideae](/source/Salsoloideae) tribe.

It is native to Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania  (in southeastern Europe), Central European Russia, Crimea South European Russia and Ukraine, (Eastern Europe), [Altay](/source/Altai_Krai), [Irkutsk](/source/Irkutsk_Oblast), Tuva and West Siberia, (in Siberia), North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, (in the Caucasus),

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (in Central Asia) and Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Mongolia, Syria and Turkey, (in Western Asia) and also [Xinjiang](/source/Xinjiang) in China.<ref name="POWO" />

The genus name of ''Petrosimonia'' is in honour of [Peter Simon Pallas](/source/Peter_Simon_Pallas) (1741–1811), a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia (1767–1810).<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> 
It was first described and published in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, Vol.4 (Issue 11) on page 52 in 1862.<ref name="POWO"/>

==Known species==
According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" />
*''[Petrosimonia brachiata](/source/Petrosimonia_brachiata)'' {{small|(Pall.) Bunge}}
*''[Petrosimonia brachyphylla](/source/Petrosimonia_brachyphylla)'' {{small|(Bunge) Iljin}}
*''[Petrosimonia glauca](/source/Petrosimonia_glauca)'' {{small|Bunge}}
*''[Petrosimonia glaucescens](/source/Petrosimonia_glaucescens)'' {{small|(Bunge) Iljin}}
*''[Petrosimonia hirsutissima](/source/Petrosimonia_hirsutissima)'' {{small|(Bunge) Iljin ex Pavlov}}
*''[Petrosimonia litwinowii](/source/Petrosimonia_litwinowii)'' {{small|Korsh.}}
*''[Petrosimonia monandra](/source/Petrosimonia_monandra)'' {{small|(Pall.) Bunge}}
*''[Petrosimonia oppositifolia](/source/Petrosimonia_oppositifolia)'' {{small|(Pall.) Litv.}}
*''[Petrosimonia sibirica](/source/Petrosimonia_sibirica)'' {{small|(Pall.) Bunge}}
*''[Petrosimonia squarrosa](/source/Petrosimonia_squarrosa)'' {{small|(Schrenk) Bunge}}
*''[Petrosimonia triandra](/source/Petrosimonia_triandra)'' {{small|(Schrank) Rech.}}

==References==
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Category:Amaranthaceae
Category:Amaranthaceae genera
Category:Plants described in 1862
Category:Taxa named by Alexander von Bunge

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