Quezeliantha
Species of flowering plant
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Quezeliantha is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.[2] It only contains one known species, Quezeliantha tibestica, a biennial endemic to the northwestern Tibesti Mountains in the central Sahara of northern Chad.[1]
| Quezeliantha | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Quezeliantha H.Scholz |
| Species: | Q. tibestica |
| Binomial name | |
| Quezeliantha tibestica (H.Scholz) H.Scholz | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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The genus name of Quezeliantha is in honour of Pierre Ambrunaz Quézel (1926–2015), a French doctor, botanist and ecologist.[3] The Latin specific epithet of tibestica refers to the Tibesti Mountains. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Taxon Vol.31 on page 558 in 1982.[1][2]