Kirkia
Genus of flowering plants
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Kirkia is a genus of plant in family Kirkiaceae.[1] It was previously placed in family Simaroubaceae, but was transferred into Kirkiaceae, together with Pleiokirkia, because these genera produce neither quassinoids nor limonoids.
| Kirkia | |
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| Kirkia acuminata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Kirkiaceae |
| Genus: | Kirkia Oliv., 1868 |
The genus name of Kirkia is in honour of Sir John Kirk, GCMG, KCB, FRS (1832–1922), who was a physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and British administrator in Zanzibar.[2]
Species
It contains the following species (6[3]), but this list may be incomplete):
- Kirkia acuminata Oliv., 1868,[4] South Africa (Transvaal), Namibia, Botswana, SW-Angola, SE-D.R. Congo (Zaire), Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique [5]
- Kirkia burgeri B. Stannard[4] Ethiopia; Somalia[6]
- Kirkia dewinteri Merxm. & Heine, 1960[4] Namibia [7]
- Kirkia leandrii (Capuron) Stannard, 2007[4] Madagascar;[8] syn.: Pleiokirkia leandrii Capuron, 1961[9][10]
- Kirkia tenuifolia Engl., 1902[4] SE-Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya [11]
- Kirkia wilmsii Engl.,[4] South Africa (Transvaal) [12]
