Corsiopsis

Corsiopsis is a genus of plants in the Corsiaceae family.^[1][2] It contains only one known species, Corsiopsis chinensis, endemic to Guangdong Province in China.^[3][4]

Corsiopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Corsiaceae
Genus:	Corsiopsis D.X.Zhang, R.M.K.Saunders & C.M.Hu
Species:	C. chinensis
Binomial name
Corsiopsis chinensis D.X.Zhang, R.M.K.Saunders & C.M.Hu

Both the genus and the species were circumscribed by Dian Xiang Zhang, Richard M.K. Saunders and Chi-Ming Hu in Syst. Bot. vol.24 (3) on page 313 in 1999.^[5]

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.^[6]