Aimara
Genus of flowering plant
title: "Aimara" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["brassicaceae", "monotypic-brassicaceae-genera", "flora-of-northern-chile", "endemic-flora-of-chile", "taxa-described-in-2013", "taxa-named-by-ihsan-ali-al-shehbaz"] description: "Genus of flowering plant" topic_path: "general/brassicaceae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimara" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Genus of flowering plant ::
|genus = Aimara |parent_authority = Salariato & Al-Shehbaz |display_parents = 3 |species = rollinsii |authority = (Al-Shehbaz & Martic.) Salariato & Al-Shehbaz |synonyms = Menonvillea rollinsii Al-Shehbaz & Martic. |synonyms_ref =
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.
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.
References
References
- "''Aimara rollinsii'' (Al-Shehbaz & Martic.) Salariato & Al-Shehbaz". [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]].
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