Alshehbazia

<i>Alshehbazia</i>

Alshehbazia

Species of flowering plant


Alshehbazia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It only contains one known species, 'Alshehbazia hauthalii' [1]

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It is native to southern Chile and parts of Argentina.[1]

The genus name of Alshehbazia is in honour of Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz, Ph.D. (born 1939 in Iraq) is an Iraqi American botanist who works as Adjunct Professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis and Senior Curator at Missouri Botanical Garden.[2] The Latin specific epithet of hauthalii refers to Horst Hauthal (1913–2002) a former German ambassador. It was first described and published in Kew Bull. Vol.70 (Issue 4) in 2015.[1]


References

  1. "Alshehbazia Salariato & Zuloaga | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

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