Aimara

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Aimara
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Subfamily: Brassicoideae
Tribe: Cremolobeae
Genus: Aimara
Salariato & Al-Shehbaz
Species:
A. rollinsii
Binomial name
Aimara rollinsii
(Al-Shehbaz & Martic.) Salariato & Al-Shehbaz
Synonyms[1]

Menonvillea rollinsii Al-Shehbaz & Martic.

Aimara is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It contains a single species, Aimara rollinsii, a subshrub endemic to Antofagasta Region of northern Chile, where it grows in subalpine habitats in the Andes.[1]

The species was first described as Menonvillea rollinsii by Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz & Clodomiro Fidel Segundo Marticorena in 1990. In 2013 Al-Shehbaz and Diego L. Salariato placed it in the new monotypic genus Aimara as Aimara rollinsii.[1]

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