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Rosoideae

Sweetbrier (Rosa eglanteria)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Subfamily:	Rosoideae
Genera
About 35-40, see text

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.

The circumscription of the Rosoideae is still not wholly certain; recent genetic research^[1] has resulted in several changes at the genus level and the removal from Rosoideae of some genera (notably Cercocarpus, Cowania, Dryas, Purshia) previously included in the subfamily. Further research is ongoing.

Genera

Acaena – bidibids
Agrimonia – agrimonies
Alchemilla – lady's mantles
Aphanes – parsley-pierts (sometimes in Alchemilla^[2])
Aremonia
Argentina – silverweeds (sometimes in Potentilla)
Bencomia
Cliffortia
Chamaerhodos^[2] Bunge – Little-rose
Comarum (formerly in Potentilla)
Dasiphora – woody cinquefoils (formerly in Potentilla)
Dendriopoterium
Drymocallis – "sticky" cinquefoils (formerly in Potentilla)
Fallugia^[2]
Filipendula
Fragaria – strawberries
Geum – "avenses"
Hagenia – African Redwood
Horkelia – horkelias (sometimes in Potentilla^[2])
Horkeliella – false horkelias (sometimes in Potentilla^[2])
Ivesia – mousetails (sometimes in Potentilla)

Kerria – Kerria
Leucosidea – Oldwood
Marcetella
Margyricarpus – Pearlfruit
Polylepis
Potaninia^[2]
Potentilla – typical cinquefoils (including Duchesnea)
Poteridium^[2]
Poterium
Purpusia
Rhodotypos – Jetbead
Rosa – roses
Rubus – brambles
Sanguisorba – burnets
Sarcopoterium
Sibbaldia^[2]
Sibbaldianthe
Sibbaldiopsis – Three-toothed Cinquefoil (formerly in Potentilla)
Sieversia^[2]
Spenceria
Stellariopsis (sometimes in Potentilla^[2])
Tetraglochin
Waldsteinia (sometimes in Geum^[2])

Footnotes

^ Eriksson, T.; Hibbs, M.S.; Yoder, A.D.; Delwiche, C.F. & Donoghue, M.J. (2003): The Phylogeny of Rosoideae (Rosaceae) based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and the TRNL/F region of chloroplast DNA. Int. J. Plant Sci. 164(2): 197–211. doi:10.1086/346163 PDF fulltext
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Potter, D., T. Eriksson, R. C. Evans, S.-H. Oh, J. E. E. Smedmark, D.R. Morgan, M. S. Kerr, and C. S. Campbell. (2007). Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 266(1–2): 5–43.

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