Esenbeckia is a genus of flowering plants in the rue family, Rutaceae.

[3] They are commonly known as jopoy,[4] the Mayan word for E. berlandieri,[5][6] or gasparillo (Spanish).

[4] The generic name commemorates German naturalist Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776 - 1858).

[3] The Takhtajan system placed the genus in the subfamily Rutoideae,[7] while Germplasm Resources Information Network placed it in the subfamily Toddalioideae.

[1] A 2021 classification of the family Rutaceae places it in subfamily Zanthoxyloideae,[8] a placement accepted by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website.