Murbeckiella

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|taxon = Murbeckiella

|authority = Rothm.

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Murbeckiella is a genus of 5 species of flowering plants in the mustard family Brassicaceae. The species of the genus are native to mountainous areas in Southern Europe, the Caucasus and Northwest Africa.

They are native to France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasia and Turkey.{{cite web |title=Murbeckiella Rothm. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12819-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=30 October 2021 |language=en}}

The genus name of Murbeckiella is in honour of Svante Samuel Murbeck (1859–1946), a Swedish professor, botanist, pteridologist and explorer.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

It was first described and published in Bot. Not. 1939 on page 468 in 1939.

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