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Metashangrilaia is a genus in the cabbage family (Brassicaceae) with a single species, Metashangrilaia forrestii, a perennial or subshrub from high Himalayan and southwest China alpine meadows. Grow it cold and bright, with sharp drainage.
Metashangrilaia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It includes a single species, Metashangrilaia forrestii, a perennial or subshrub native to subalpine regions of the eastern Himalayas, from Bhutan to eastern Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh, and Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of south-central China.
The species was first described as Braya forestii by William Wright Smith in 1913. In 2016 Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz and Dmitry A. German placed it in the new monotypic genus Metashangrilaia as Metashangrilaia forrestii.
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