Parodiodoxa

Parodiodoxa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.^[2] It just contains one species, Parodiodoxa chionophila, a perennial or subshrub native to subalpine areas of northwestern Argentina.^[1]

Parodiodoxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Parodiodoxa O.E.Schulz
Species:	P. chionophila
Binomial name
Parodiodoxa chionophila (Speg.) O.E.Schulz
Synonyms[1]
Thlaspi chionophilum Speg.

The genus name of Parodiodoxa is in honour of Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895–1966), an Argentinian botanist and agricultural engineer, professor of botany in Buenos Aires and La Plata, with a focus on South American grasses.^[3] The Latin specific epithet of chionophila means snow lover.^[4] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem Vol.10 on pages 781-783 in 1929.^[1]