| Sclerotiaria | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Apioideae |
| Tribe: | Coriandreae |
| Genus: | Sclerotiaria Korovin |
| Species: | S. pentaceros |
| Binomial name | |
| Sclerotiaria pentaceros (Korovin) Korovin | |
| Synonyms | |
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Sclerotiaria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. The only species is Sclerotiaria pentaceros. It is also in Tribe Coriandreae.
It is native to Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
The genus name of Sclerotiaria is a compound word derived from Greek skleros meaning hard and also tiara - a Persian diadem, or small crown. The Latin specific epithet of pentaceros is a compound word, penta meaning five and ceros from greek (kéras) meaning horn. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Trudy Inst. Bot. Akad. Nauk Kazakhst. S.S.R. Vol.13 on page 243 in 1962.
References
- ^ "Sclerotiaria pentaceros (Korovin) Korovin". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ^ "Sclerotiaria Korovin | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- Terentieva, Elena I.; Valiejo-Roman, C. M.; Samigullin, Tahir H; Pimenov, Michael; Tilney, Patricia (January 2015). "Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analyses of the traditional tribe Coriandreae (Umbelliferae-Apioideae)". Phytotaxa. 195 (4): 251–271. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.195.4.1.
- Umberto Quattrocchi CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... (1999), p. 2435, at Google Books
- Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sclerotiaria | |
| Goodallia guianensis | |