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| image = spiraeanthus.jpg
| image_caption = in the [[Karatau Mountains]], [[Kazakhstan]]
|status = EN
|status_system = IUCN3.1
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]]
| unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]]
| unranked_ordo = [[Rosids]]
| ordo = [[Rosales]]
| familia = [[Rosaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Amygdaloideae]]<ref name=Potter>{{cite journal |author=D. Potter, T. Eriksson, R. C. Evans, S. Oh, J. E. E. Smedmark, D. R. Morgan, M. Kerr, K. R. Robertson, M. Arsenault, T. A. Dickinson & C. S. Campbell |year=2007 |title=Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae |journal=[[Plant Systematics and Evolution]] |volume=266 |issue=1–2 |pages=5–43 |url=http://biology.umaine.edu/Amelanchier/Rosaceae_2007.pdf |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]] |doi=10.1007/s00606-007-0539-9}} Note that this publication pre-dates the 2011 International Botanical Congress which mandates that the combined subfamily referred to in the paper as Spiraeoideae [http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=art19#Ex.5 must be called Amygdaloideae].</ref>
| tribus = [[Sorbarieae]]
| genus = '''''Spiraeanthus'''''
| species = '''''S. schrenkianus'''''
| binomial = ''Spiraeanthus schrenkianus''
| binomial_authority = ([[Fish. et Mey]]) [[Carl Maximowicz|Maxim.]]
}}
'''''Spiraeanthus''''' is a monotypic genus of [[shrub]] in the [[Rosaceae|rose family]] containing the single species '''''Spiraeanthus schrenkianus'''''. It is native to [[Kazakhstan]] and possibly [[Kyrgyzstan]].<ref>Participants of the FFI/IUCN SSC Central Asian Regional Tree Red Listing Workshop, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (11-13 July 2006). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/63489/0 ''Spiraeanthus schrenkianus''.] The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007. Downloaded on 20 November 2015.</ref> It is a resident of low parts of [[Karatau Mountains]] and gravely [[Betpak-Dala]] deserts. 

The genus name comes from {{lang-la|spiraea}} and {{lang-gr|ανθος}}- flower. This is a shrub covered in fernlike foliage made up of fronds of small leaflets. At the ends of the erect branches of this spreading bush are [[inflorescence]]s of rose spiraealike flowers. It is a [[relict]] of the [[Eocene]] and the closest relative of ''[[Chamaebatiaria]]''.<ref name=Kamelin>Kamelin, R. V. ''Flora Syrdarinskogo Karatau.'' [[Leningrad]]: Nauka, 1990 (In Russian) ISBN 5-02-026548-9</ref>

This species is included on the [[Regional Red List]] of Kazakhstan. It is under protection in the [[Karatau Nature Reserve]].

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==External links==
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*[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=34049-1 ''Spiraeanthus'' in IPNI]
*[http://ru.government.kz/docs/p061034~2.htm Red Book of Kazakhstan]
*[http://enrin.grida.no/biodiv/ru/national/kazakh/nav/species/flora.htm Divercity of Flora of Kazakhstan]
*[http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/russia/comments.shtml Photo at mobot.org]

[[Category:Amygdaloideae]]
[[Category:Monotypic Rosaceae genera]]
[[Category:Flora of Kazakhstan]]

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