Alshehbazia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It only contains one known species, 'Alshehbazia hauthalii' [1]
It is native to southern Chile and parts of Argentina.
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.It was first described and published in Kew Bull. Vol.70 (Issue 4) in 2015.[1]