Menkea

Menkea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Menkea; Lehm.

Short description: Genus of flowering plant

Menkea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.^[1]

It is native to Australia.^[1]

The genus name of Menkea is in honour of Karl Theodor Menke (1791–1861), a German malacologist and balneologist who was a native of Bremen. He is remembered for his research on snails.^[2] It was first described and published in Index Seminum (HBG, Hamburgensis) 1843 on page 8 in 1843.^[1]

Known species

According to Kew:^[1]

Menkea australis Lehm.
Menkea crassa E.A.Shaw
Menkea draboides (Hook.) Benth.
Menkea lutea E.A.Shaw
Menkea sphaerocarpa F.Muell.
Menkea villosula (F.Muell. & Tate) J.M.Black

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "Menkea Lehm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12790-1.
↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

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[POWO-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "Menkea Lehm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12790-1.

[2] Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.