Petrosimonia
Petrosimonia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It is also in the Salsoloideae tribe.
It is native to Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania , Central European Russia, Crimea South European Russia and Ukraine,, Altay, Irkutsk, Tuva and West Siberia,, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus,,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Mongolia, Syria and Turkey, and also Xinjiang in China.
The genus name of Petrosimonia is in honour of Peter [Simon Pallas], a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.
It was first described and published in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, Vol.4 on page 52 in 1862.