# Lesquerella

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
|name = "''Lesquerella''"
|image = Lesquerella tenella 2.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Physaria tenella](/source/Physaria_tenella)'', formerly "''Lesquerella tenella''"
|taxon = Lesquerella
|authority = [S. Watson](/source/Sereno_Watson)
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = None
}}

'''''Lesquerella''''' is the former name of a [genus](/source/genus) of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the family [Brassicaceae](/source/Brassicaceae).<ref name="usda">[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?6751 Genus: ''Lesquerella'' S. Watson] USDA GRIN Taxonomy for Plants</ref> Recent work{{vague|date=June 2019}} has shown that ''Lesquerella'' is indistinct from the genus ''[Physaria](/source/Physaria)'' and both genera have been united under ''Physaria''.<ref>Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz and Steve L. O'Kane, Jr. "Lesquerella Is United with Physaria (Brassicaceae)" '''''Novon'''''
Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 319–329</ref> In addition, the former ''Lesquerella'' of the southeastern United States have been moved to the genus ''[Paysonia](/source/Paysonia)'' since 2002.<ref>Paysonia, a New Genus Segregated from Lesquerella (Brassicaceae)" '''''Novon'''''
Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 379–381</ref> The genus ''Lesquerella'' is now no longer applied to any species and is considered defunct.

The genus is named in honor of [Leo Lesquereux](/source/Leo_Lesquereux), 1805–1889, Swiss and American botanist.<ref>Serano Watson, "Contributions to American Botany, XV" Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 23 (1888) 249–287.</ref>

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Category:Brassicaceae genera
Category:Historically recognized angiosperm taxa
Category:Physaria
Category:Taxa named by Sereno Watson

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