{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Sinojohnstonia |authority = Hu (1936) }} '''''Sinojohnstonia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Sinojohnstonia'' Hu {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4805-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=25 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to China (within north-central, south-central, south-east and Inner Mongolia regions).<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Sinojohnstonia'' is in honour of Ivan Murray Johnston (1898–1960), a United States botanist.<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 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> The Latin suffix of ''Sino-'' refers to ''sinensis'' meaning from China.<ref>{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}</ref> It was first described and published in Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. Vol.7 on page 201 in 1936.<ref name="POWO"/>
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Sinojohnstonia chekiangensis'' {{small|(Migo) W.T.Wang ex Z.Ying Zhang}} *''Sinojohnstonia moupinensis'' {{small|(Franch.) W.T.Wang ex Z.Ying Zhang}} *''Sinojohnstonia plantaginea'' {{small|Hu}} *''Sinojohnstonia ruhuaii'' {{small|W.B.Liao & Lei Wang}}
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Category:Boraginoideae Category:Boraginaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1936 Category:Endemic flora of China