Alshehbazia hauthalii
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Alshehbazia Salariato & Zuloaga |
| Species: | A. hauthalii
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Alshehbazia hauthalii is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It is a subshrub native to west-northwestern and southern Argentina and southern Chile.[1]
The species was first described as Eudema hauthalii by Ernst Friedrich Gilg and Reinhold Conrad Muschler in 1909. In 2015 it was placed in the new genus Alshehbazia as Alshehbazia hauthalii, published in Kew Bull. Vol.70 (Issue 4).[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.
References
- ^ a b c "Alshehbazia hauthalii (Gilg & Muschl.) Salariato & Zuloaga | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
- ^ 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.