Guiraoa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Brassicales |
Family: | Brassicaceae |
Genus: |
Guiraoa Coss. |
Guiraoa is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. [1] It only contains one species, Guiraoa arvensis Coss. [2]
It is native to Spain. [2]
The genus name of Guiraoa is in honour of Ángel Guirao y Navarro (1817–1890), Spanish doctor, naturalist and politician from Murcia who discovered this plant. [3] The Latin specific epithet of arvensis refers to arvum of ploughed fields or ploughed land. [4] It was first described and published in Notes Pl. Crit. on page 98 in 1851. [2]