Petroedmondia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
It is native to Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Turkey.
[1] The genus name of Petroedmondia is in honour of Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810–1885), a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician.
[3] The Latin specific epithet of syriaca means "coming from the Syria.
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Fl.