Fourraea alpina

The first mention of this species was as early as 1577 by Johann Thal from the Harz Mountains. The first scientific publication was in 1767 under the name Turritis pauciflora by Johann Friedrich Carl Grimm in Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. Appendix 3, p. 348 and in the same year by Carl von Linné as Brassica alpina in Mantissa Plantarum, 1, p. 95. It was then redescribed by Johann Daniel Leers in 1775 as Turritis brassica, which was recombined by Stephan Rauschert in 1975 as Arabis brassica (Leers) Rauschert. Christian August Friedrich Garcke recombined the Grimm name to Arabis pauciflora (Grimm) Garcke in 1858. It was not until Werner Greuter and Hervé Maurice Burdet placed this species in its own genus Fourraea Greuter & Burdet in 1984 as Fourraea alpina (L.)Greuter & Burdet in Willdenowia, vol. 13, 2, pp. 277-288.

The genus name Fourraea honors the French botanist Jules Pierre Fourreau (1844-1871)

GBIF
F.alpina (syn Arabis pauciflora 1504 ) Turritis brassica Leers (1775) accepted by Govaert