Cardamine is a large genus of flowering plants in the mustard family, Brassicaceae, known as bittercresses and toothworts. It contains more than 200 species of annuals and perennials. Species in this genus can be found in diverse habitats worldwide, except the Antarctic. The name Cardamine is derived from the Greek kardaminē, water cress, from kardamon, pepper grass.
Pontederia is a genus of tristylous aquatic plants, members of which are commonly known as pickerel weeds. Pontederia is endemic to the Americas, distributed from Canada to Argentina, where it is found in shallow water or on mud. The genus was named by Linnaeus in honour of the Italian botanist Giulio Pontedera.
Draba is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, commonly known as whitlow-grasses.
Erythroxylum (Erythroxylon) is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae. Many of the approximately 200 species contain the tropane alkaloid cocaine, and two of the species within this genus, Erythroxylum coca and Erythroxylum novogranatense, both native to South America, are the main commercial source of cocaine and of the mild stimulant coca tea. Another species, Erythroxylum vaccinifolium is used as an aphrodisiac in Brazilian drinks and herbal medicine.
Otto Eugen Schulz was a German botanist, born in Berlin. He was the brother of botanist Roman Schulz (1873–1926).
Clibadium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
I. M. Johnston, was a United States botanist. He studied at Pomona College in Claremont, California and at Harvard University. His plant collections are housed in the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, in Claremont, and also in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University.
Stenopetalum is a genus in the Brassicaceae family which is endemic to Australia. It was first described by Robert Brown in 1821.
Aphragmus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Arabidella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It was first described in 1853 by Ferdinand von Mueller as a subgenus of Erysimum to give the name, Erysimum subg. Arabidella, but was elevated to genus status by Otto Eugen Schulz in 1924. The type species is Arabidella trisecta.
Cuphonotus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Microlepidium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Harmsiodoxa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Menkea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Pycnoplinthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.
Arabidella trisecta is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It was first described in 1853 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Erysimum trisecta, but was transferred to the genus, Arabidella in 1924 when by Otto Eugen Schulz elevated Mueller's subgenus Arabidella to genus status. No type specimen was indicated by Mueller in 1853, and in 1965 Elizabeth A. Shaw specified the lectotype as MEL 758 and a paralectotype MEL 0000778A, both collected by Mueller from Spencers Gulf in South Australia.
Cuphonotus humistratus is a species of plant in the Brassicaceae family, and was first described in 1878 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Capsella humistrata. It was reassigned to the genus, Cuphonotus, in 1933 by Otto Eugen Schulz.
