''Corsiopsis'' is a genus of plants in the
Corsiaceae family. It contains only one known species, ''Corsiopsis chinensis'',
endemic
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to
Guangdong Province in
China.
Both the genus and the species were
circumscribed
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by Dian Xiang Zhang, Richard M.K. Saunders and Chi-Ming Hu in Syst. Bot. vol.24 (3) on page 313 in 1999.
The genus name of ''Corsiopsis'' is in honour of Bardo Corsi Salviati (1844–1907), who was an Italian nobleman with a large botanical park near Florence.
References
Monotypic Liliales genera
Corsiaceae
Parasitic plants
Flora of Guangdong
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