Succisella

Succisella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae.^[1] There are four or five species in the genus.^[1][2] They are all native to Europe; three are endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.^[2]

Succisella
Succisella inflexa (southern succisella)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Dipsacales
Family:	Caprifoliaceae
Subfamily:	Dipsacoideae
Genus:	Succisella Beck (1893)
Species[1]
5; see text

Species

Five species are accepted.^[2][1]

• Succisella andreae-molinae Pajarón & Escudero – Spain
• Succisella carvalhoana (Mariz) Baksay – west-central Portugal
• Succisella inflexa (Kluk) Beck – southern succisella, Italy to Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Albania, and the Caucasus
• Succisella microcephala (Willk.) Beck – west-central Spain
• Succisella petteri (J.Kern. & Murb.) Beck – Albania and former Yugoslavia

Etymology

Succisella ostensibly means ‘cut off from below’ or ‘abruptly ending’.^[3]