Neobaclea

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Neobaclea

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|Abutilon crispifolium |(Cav.) Dusén

|Abutilon vidalii |(Phil.) Speg.

|Cristaria vidalii |Phil.

|Neobaclea spirostegia |Hochr.

|Sida crispifolia |Cav.

|Sphaeralcea crispifolia |(Cav.) Baker f. }}

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Neobaclea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.{{cite web |title=Neobaclea Hochr. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:25993-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=18 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Neobaclea crispifolia (Cav.) Krapov.{{cite web |title=Neobaclea crispifolia (Cav.) Krapov. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:562471-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=1 November 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is southern Argentina.

The genus name of Neobaclea is in honour of César Hipólito Bacle (1794–1838), a Swiss naturalist, lithographer and periodicals publisher. He also collected plants, animals, minerals and cultural materials in South America and elsewhere.{{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}} The Latin specific epithet of crispifolia

is a portmanteau word, with crispus referring to curled and also folia which refers to foliage.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}

The genus was first described and published in Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. Vol.189 on page 1300 in 1929, then the species Neobaclea crispifolia was first published in Darwiniana Vol.7 on page 108 in 1945.