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Leucosidea sericea is a member of the Rosaceae, also known as the rose family.Although this family is very large and economically important worldwide, it is poorly represented in Africa generally and in southern Africa in particular.
Rosaceae generally have five sepals, five petals, and many spirally arranged stamens. The bases of the sepals, petals, and stamens are fused together to form a characteristic cup-like structure called a hypanthium. They can be arranged in spikes, or heads. Solitary flowers are rare.
There are approximatively 100–160 genera and 3,500–4,000 species in the family Rosaceae. Plants of the World Online currently accepts 108 genera. [1
Rosales (/ r oʊ ˈ z eɪ l iː z /, roh-ZAY-leez) [5] are an order of flowering plants. [6] Well-known members of Rosales include: roses, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, apples and pears, plums, peaches and apricots, almonds, rowan and hawthorn, jujube, elms, banyans, figs, mulberries, breadfruit, nettles, hops, and cannabis.
The rose subfamily Rosoideae consists of more than 850 species, including many shrubs, perennial herbs, and fruit plants such as strawberries and brambles.Only a few are annual herbs.
Sorbaria sorbifolia, the false spiraea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae.The common name is also spelled false spirea.Other common names include false goat's beard, sorb-leaved schizonotus, Ural false spirea, and in Chinese: 珍珠梅; pinyin: zhen zhu mei; lit. 'pearl plum'.
Rosa persica is an anomalous species of rose that at one time was placed in a separate genus Hulthemia.It is native to deserts and steppes from Iran and Afghanistan in the south, through Central Asia, to western Siberia in the north. [3]
Geum urbanum flower. Geum / ˈ dʒ iː ə m /, [1] (Latinized Greek for "taste" referencing the roots of the plant [2]) commonly called avens, is a genus of about 50 species of rhizomatous perennial herbaceous plants in the rose family and its subfamily Rosoideae, widespread across Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa, and New Zealand.