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Paropyrum is a monotypic genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the subfamily Thalictroideae in the family Ranunculaceae. The sole species in the genus, Paropyrum anemonoides, has a native range that spans from Central Asia to North China and the western Himalayas. The plants can also be characterized as rhizomatous and geophytes. The stems grow 10 to 25 cm (3.9 to 9.8 in) tall. Paropyrum blooms with small white flowers possessing five sepals and five petals.
The species was initially described in 1842 as Isopyrum anemonoides by the Russian botanists Grigory Karelin and Ivan Petrovich Kirilov. This assignment to Isopyrum was challenged by later botanists and taxonomic revisions for more than 160 years. The species was segregated as the sole species within the genus Paropyrum by the German botanist Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich in 1925, but this placement was not widely accepted.
Paropyrum favors high-elevation grassy slopes, gravelly soil, and rocky areas, often within forests.
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