Sclerotiaria

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| genus = Sclerotiaria

| parent_authority = Korovin

| species = pentaceros

| authority = (Korovin) Korovin

| synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=848136-1 |title=Sclerotiaria pentaceros (Korovin) Korovin |access-date=9 December 2021}}

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|Kosopoljanskia pentaceros |Korovin

|Schtschurowskia pentaceros |(Korovin) Schischk. }}

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Sclerotiaria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. The only species is Sclerotiaria pentaceros.{{cite web |title=Sclerotiaria Korovin {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40511-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=25 May 2021 |language=en}} It is also in Tribe Coriandreae.{{cite journal |last1=Terentieva |first1=Elena I. |last2=Valiejo-Roman |first2=C. M. |last3=Samigullin |first3=Tahir H |last4=Pimenov |first4=Michael |last5=Tilney |first5=Patricia |title=Molecular phylogenetic and morphological analyses of the traditional tribe Coriandreae (Umbelliferae-Apioideae) |journal=Phytotaxa |date=January 2015 |volume=195 |issue=4 |pages=251–271|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.195.4.1 }}

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.Umberto Quattrocchi {{google books|zIOvJSJs-IkC|CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... (1999)|page=2435}} The Latin specific epithet of pentaceros is a compound word, penta meaning five and

ceros from greek (kéras) meaning horn.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }} 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.