Raillardiopsis
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Raillardiopsis is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of flowering plants in the daisy family
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

. They are native to California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. Some botanists treat the two species in this genus as members of other genera, making this genus obsolete.

Anisocarpus scabridus was formerly named Raillardiopsis scabridus.

Carlquistia muirii
Carlquistia
Carlquistia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the aster family containing the single species Carlquistia muirii. Formerly named Raillardiopsis muirii, the plant was reexamined in the 1990s and moved to a new genus of its own, separate from similar and closely related genera, such as Madia...

was formerly named Raillardiopsis muirii.
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