Quezeliantha

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Quezeliantha

|authority = H.Scholz

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|synonyms = Quezelia tibestica {{small|H.Scholz}}

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Quezeliantha is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.{{cite web |title=Quezeliantha H.Scholz {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893572-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 May 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Quezeliantha tibestica (H.Scholz) H.Scholz and has a synonym, Quezelia {{small|H.Scholz}}.

It is native to Chad.

The genus name of Quezeliantha is in honour of Pierre Ambrunaz Quézel (1926–2015), a French doctor, botanist and ecologist.{{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 tibestica refers to the Tibesti Mountains in the central Sahara, in Chad.

Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Taxon Vol.31 on page 558 in 1982.