Kickxia
Kickxia is a genus of plants in the plantain family. It includes several species known commonly as cancerworts or fluellins. Species are mostly native to Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, with two, K. elatine and K. spuria, well-established as invasive elsewhere.
Taxonomy
The genus Kickxia was named after the Belgian botanist Jean Kickx. Some species formerly placed in this genus have been reassigned to Nanorrhinum.Species
, Plants of [the World Online] accepted the following Kickxia species:- Kickxia aegyptiaca Nábelek
- Kickxia caucasica Kuprian.
- Kickxia cirrhosa Fritsch
- Kickxia collenetteana D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia commutata Fritsch
- Kickxia × confinis Soó
- Kickxia corallicola D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia dentata D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia elatine Dumort. - sharpleaf cancerwort
- Kickxia elatinoides Rothm.
- Kickxia floribunda Täckh. & Boulos
- Kickxia glaberrima D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia gombaultii Mouterde ex Charpin
- Kickxia hartlii D.Heller
- Kickxia lanigera Hand.-Mazz.
- Kickxia membranacea D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia papillosa R.R.Mill
- Kickxia pendula 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 D.A.Sutton
- Kickxia spuria Dumort. - roundleaf cancerwort