Kickxia

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.

Kickxia
Kickxia elatine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Plantaginaceae
Tribe:	Antirrhineae
Genus:	Kickxia Dumort.[1]
Species
See text.

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

See also

• Plants with common names that utilize Germanic suffix -wort