Kickxia
Genus of flowering plants
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Kickxia is a genus of plants in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). It includes several species known commonly as cancerworts or fluellins. Species are mostly native to Europe, Central Asia, and Africa,[2] with two, K. elatine and K. spuria, well-established as invasive elsewhere.
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| Kickxia elatine | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Tribe: | Antirrhineae |
| Genus: | Kickxia Dumort.[1] |
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Taxonomy
The genus Kickxia was named after the Belgian botanist Jean Kickx.[2][3] Some species formerly placed in this genus have been reassigned to Nanorrhinum.[4]
Species
As of February 2018[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following Kickxia species:[1]
- Kickxia aegyptiaca (L.) Nábelek
- Kickxia caucasica (Muss.Puschk. ex Spreng.) Kuprian.
- Kickxia cirrhosa (L.) Fritsch
- Kickxia collenetteana D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia commutata (Bernh. ex Rchb.) Fritsch
- Kickxia × confinis (Lacroix) Soó
- Kickxia corallicola D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia dentata (Vahl) D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort. - sharpleaf cancerwort
- Kickxia elatinoides (Desf.) Rothm.
- Kickxia floribunda (Boiss.) Täckh. & Boulos
- Kickxia glaberrima (J.A.Schmidt) D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia gombaultii (J.Thiébaut) Mouterde ex Charpin
- Kickxia hartlii (Betsche) D.Heller
- Kickxia lanigera (Desf.) Hand.-Mazz.
- Kickxia membranacea D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia papillosa R.R.Mill
- Kickxia pendula (G.Kunkel) G.Kunkel
- Kickxia petiolata D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia pseudoscoparia V.W.Sm. & D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia sabarum V.W.Sm. & D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia saccata D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia scalarum D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia spiniflora (O.Schwartz) D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. - roundleaf cancerwort