Parodiodoxa

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Parodiodoxa

|authority = O.E.Schulz

|synonyms = Thlaspi chionophilum {{au|Speg.}}

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Parodiodoxa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.{{cite web |title=Parodiodoxa O.E.Schulz {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:297004-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 May 2021 |language=en}} It just contains one species, Parodiodoxa chionophila (Speg.) O.E.Schulz {{cite web |title=Parodiodoxa chionophila (Speg.) O.E.Schulz {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:183535-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=8 November 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is northwestern Argentina.

The genus name of Parodiodoxa is in honour of Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895–1966), an Argentinian botanist and agricultural engineer, professor of botany in Buenos Aires and La Plata, with a focus on South American grasses.{{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 chionophila means snow lover.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }} Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem Vol.10 on pages 781-783 in 1929.