Griffitharia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon = Griffitharia

|authority = Rushforth (2018)

|display_parents = 3

|type_species = Griffitharia guanii

|type_species_authority = (Rushforth) Rushforth

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 19; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77208596-1 Griffitharia Rushforth]. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 December 2023.

}}

Griffitharia is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae. It includes 19 species native to Asia, ranging from Afghanistan along the Himalayas to Myanmar and central China.

They are small to medium-sized trees, which rarely grow more than 20 meters tall. They grow in cool temperate zones from about 1850 to 3300 meters elevation.Rushforth, K. 2018. The Whitebeam problem, and a solution. Phytologia 100(4): 222-247; 21 Dec 2018.

19 species are accepted.

• Griffitharia ambrozyana {{small|(C.K.Schneid.) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia atrosanguinea {{small|(T.T.Yu & H.T.Tsai) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia burtonsmithiorum {{small|(Rushforth) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia guanii {{small|(Rushforth) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia hedlundii {{small|(C.K.Schneid.) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia hemsleyi {{small|(C.K.Schneid.) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia heseltinei {{small|(Rushforth) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia hudsonii {{small|(Rushforth) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia karchungii {{small|(Rushforth) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia lanata {{small|(D.Don) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia needhamii {{small|(Rushforth) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia pallescens {{small|(Rehder) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia schwerinii {{small|(C.K.Schneid.) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia sharmae {{small|(M.F.Watson, V.Manandhar & Rushforth) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia spongbergii {{small|(Rushforth) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia thibetica {{small|(Cardot) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia vestita {{small|(Wall. ex G.Don) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia wardii {{small|(Merr.) Rushforth}}
• Griffitharia yongdeensis {{small|(Rushforth) Rushforth}}