Yinshania

Yinshania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Tribe: Yinshanieae
Genus: Yinshania
Ma & Y.Z.Zhao[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms[2]
  • Chuanxinia Y.Z.Zhao
  • Cochleariella Y.H.Zhang & Vogt
  • Cochleariopsis Y.H.Zhang
  • Hilliella (O.E.Schulz) Y.H.Zhang & H.W.Li

Yinshania (Chinese: 阴山荠属, meaning Yinshan shepherd's purse) is a genus of flowering plants in the crucifer family Brassicaceae, native to China (including Taiwan) and northern Vietnam. Some species in Yinshania are diploid, while the polyploid species were proposed to be placed in a separate genus, Hilliella.[3] Plants of the World Online includes Hilliella within Yinshania.[2]

Species

12 species are accepted.[2]

  • Yinshania acutangula (O.E.Schulz) Y.H.Zhang
  • Yinshania fumarioides (Dunn) Y.Z.Zhao[a]
  • Yinshania henryi (Oliv.) Y.H.Zhang
  • Yinshania hui (O.E.Schulz) Y.Z.Zhao[a]
  • Yinshania hunanensis (Y.H.Zhang) Al-Shehbaz, G.Yang, L.L.Lu & T.Y.Cheo[a]
  • Yinshania lichuanensis (Y.H.Zhang) Al-Shehbaz, G.Yang, L.L.Lu & T.Y.Cheo[a]
  • Yinshania paradoxa (Hance) Y.Z.Zhao[a]
  • Yinshania rivulorum (Dunn) Al-Shehbaz, G.Yang, L.L.Lu & T.Y.Cheo[a]
  • Yinshania rupicola (D.C.Zhang & J.Z.Shao) Al-Shehbaz, G.Yang, L.L.Lu & T.Y.Cheo[a]
  • Yinshania sinuata (K.C.Kuan) Al-Shehbaz, G.Yang, L.L.Lu & T.Y.Cheo[a]
  • Yinshania yixianensis (Y.H.Zhang) Al-Shehbaz, G.Yang, L.L.Lu & T.Y.Cheo[a]
  • Yinshania zayuensis Y.H.Zhang

Formerly placed here

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Member of proposed genus Hilliella

References

  1. ^ Acta Phytotax. Sin. 17(3): 113. (1979)
  2. ^ a b c "Yinshania Ma & Y.Z.Zhao". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
  3. ^ Chen, Hongliang; Deng, Tao; Yue, Jipei; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A.; Sun, Hang (2016). "Molecular phylogeny reveals the non-monophyly of tribe Yinshanieae (Brassicaceae) and description of a new tribe, Hillielleae". Plant Diversity. 38 (4): 171–182. Bibcode:2016PlDiv..38..171C. doi:10.1016/j.pld.2016.04.004. PMC 6112204. PMID 30159462.
  4. ^ "Bifurcipilus furcatopilosus (K.C.Kuan) Y.Z.Zhao". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 20 October 2025.