{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Menonvillea_filifolia_(8648288885).jpg |image_caption = ''Menonvillea filifolia'' |taxon = Menonvillea |authority = DC. |synonyms = {{species list |Cymatoptera|Turcz. |Decaptera|Turcz. |Dispeltophorus|Lehm. |Hexaptera|Hook.}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO"/> }} '''''Menonvillea''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Menonvillea'' DC. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30005484-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date=15 September 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
It includes 24 species native to Chile and western Argentina.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Menonvillea'' is in honour of Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville (1739–1780), a French botanist who volunteered to be sent to Mexico in 1776 to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It was first described and published in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Vol.7 on page 236 in 1821.<ref name="POWO"/>
==Accepted species== According to Kew 24 species are accepted.<ref name="POWO" /> {{Div col}} *''Menonvillea chilensis'' {{small|(Turcz.) B.D.Jacks.}} *''Menonvillea cicatricosa'' {{small|(Phil.) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea comberi'' {{small|Sandwith}} *''Menonvillea constitutionis'' {{small|(Phil.) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea cuneata'' {{small|(Gillies & Hook.) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea famatinensis'' {{small|(Boelcke) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea filifolia'' {{small|Fisch. & C.A.Mey.}} *''Menonvillea flexuosa'' {{small|Phil.}} *''Menonvillea frigida'' {{small|(Phil.) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea linearifolia'' {{small|(Hook. & Arn.) Al-Shehbaz & Salariato}} *''Menonvillea linearis'' {{small|DC.}} *''Menonvillea littoralis'' {{small|(Barnéoud) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea macrocarpa'' {{small|(I.M.Johnst.) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea marticorenae'' {{small|(Al-Shehbaz) Salariato & Al-Shehbaz}} *''Menonvillea minima'' {{small|Rollins}} *''Menonvillea nordenskjoeldii'' {{small|(Dusén) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea orbiculata'' {{small|Phil.}} *''Menonvillea patagonica'' {{small|Speg.}} *''Menonvillea pinnatifida'' {{small|Barnéoud}} *''Menonvillea purpurea'' {{small|(G.T.Hastings) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea rigida'' {{small|Rollins}} *''Menonvillea scapigera'' {{small|(Phil.) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea spathulata'' {{small|(Gillies & Hook.) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea virens'' {{small|(Phil.) Rollins}} *''Menonvillea zuloagaensis'' {{small|Al-Shehbaz}} {{Div col end}}
===Formerly placed here=== *''Aimara rollinsii'' {{small|(Al-Shehbaz & Martic.) Salariato & Al-Shehbaz}} (as ''Menonvillea rollinsii'' {{small|Al-Shehbaz & Martic.}})<ref>{{cite web |title=''Aimara rollinsii'' (Al-Shehbaz & Martic.) Salariato & Al-Shehbaz |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77136045-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=15 September 2025}}</ref>
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Category:Brassicaceae genera Category:Flora of southern South America Category:Plants described in 1821 Category:Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle