| Delpinophytum | |
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| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Clade: | Angiosperms | 
| Clade: | Eudicots | 
| Clade: | Rosids | 
| Order: | Brassicales | 
| Family: | Brassicaceae | 
| Genus: | Delpinophytum Speg. | 
| Species: | D. patagonicum | 
| Binomial name | |
| Delpinophytum patagonicum (Speg.) Speg. | |
| Synonyms [1] [2] | |
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Delpinophytum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae, [1] with one species, Delpinophytum patagonicum, a subshrub native to southern Argentina. [2]
The species was first described as Delpinoella patagonica by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini in 1902. The genus was named after Italian botanist Federico Delpino (1833–1905), [3] then published and described in Anales Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires Vol.9 on page 9 in 1903. [4]