Pseudodraba

Pseudodraba is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Pseudodraba hystrix, a subshrub native to Afghanistan and western Pakistan.^[1]

Pseudodraba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Tribe:	Arabideae
Genus:	Pseudodraba Al-Shehbaz, D.A.German & M.Koch
Species:	P. hystrix
Binomial name
Pseudodraba hystrix (Hook.f. & Thomson) Al-Shehbaz, D.A.German & M.Koch
Synonyms[1]
Draba hystrix Hook.f. & Thomson (1861) (basionym) Draba rhodantha Rech.f. & Edelb.

The species was first described as Draba hystrix by Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson in 1861. In 2011 Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz, Dmitry A. German, and Marcus A. Koch placed the species in the new monotypic genus Pseudodraba as Pseudodraba hystrix.^[1]