''Guiraoa'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

genus of

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s belonging to the family

Brassicaceae Brassicaceae () or (the older) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous plants, while some are shrubs. The le ...

. It only contains one species, ''Guiraoa arvensis'' Coss. It is native to Spain. The genus name of ''Guiraoa'' is in honour of Ángel Guirao y Navarro (1817–1890), Spanish doctor, naturalist and politician from

Murcia Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...

who discovered this plant. The Latin

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of ''arvensis'' refers to ''arvum'' of ploughed fields or ploughed land. It was first described and published in Notes Pl. Crit. on page 98 in 1851.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9001411 Brassicaceae Brassicaceae genera Flora of Spain Plants described in 1851