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 has resulted in several changes at the genus level and the removal from Rosoideae of some genera (notably Cercocarpus, Cowania, Dryas and Purshia) previously included in the subfamily.
Genera
Acaena – bidibidis Agrimonia – agrimonies Alchemilla – lady's mantles Aphanes – parsley-pierts (sometimes in Alchemilla) Aremonia Argentina – silverweeds (sometimes in Potentilla) Bencomia Chamaerhodos Bunge – little-rose Cliffortia Coluria Comarum (formerly in Potentilla) Dasiphora – woody cinquefoils (formerly in Potentilla) Dendriopoterium (currently in Sanguisorba) Drymocallis – sticky cinquefoils (formerly in Potentilla) Fallugia Filipendula Fragaria – strawberries Geum – avenses Hagenia – African redwood Leucosidea – oldwood Marcetella Margyricarpus – pearlfruit Polylepis Potaninia Potentilla – typical cinquefoils Poteridium Poterium Purpusia (sometimes in Potentilla ) Rosa – roses Rubus – brambles and raspberries Sanguisorba – burnets Sarcopoterium Sibbaldia Sibbaldianthe Sibbaldiopsis – three-toothed cinquefoil (formerly in Potentilla) Sieversia Spenceria Tetraglochin Waldsteinia (sometimes in Geum)
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