Kirkia

Kirkia
Kirkia acuminata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Kirkiaceae
Genus:	Kirkia Oliv., 1868

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.

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 leandriiCapuron, 1961 ^{[9] [10]}
• Kirkia tenuifolia Engl., 1902 ^[4] SE-Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya ^[11]
• Kirkia wilmsii Engl., ^[4] South Africa (Transvaal) ^[12]

Journal

'Kirkia' is also the name of 'The Zimbabwe Journal of Botany', published by the National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe. Since 1960 to the present day and written in English. ^{[13] [14]}

References

1. "Kirkia Oliv". Plants of the World Online.
2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen[Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID   246307410.
3. The Flowering Plants Handbook
4. Archived 2018-02-16 at the Wayback Machine Catalogue of Life: 2017 Annual Checklist Genus Kirkia
5. "Catalogue of Life: 2017 Annual Checklist Kirkia acuminata". Archived from the original on 2022-09-29. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
6. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Kirkia burgeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1998 e.T62994A12600996. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T62994A12600996.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
7. Craven, P. (2004). "Kirkia dewinteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2004 e.T34946A9900068. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T34946A9900068.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
8. Tropicos
9. Tropicos Pleiokirkia leandrii
10. GBIF
11. "Catalogue of Life: 2017 Annual Checklist Kirkia tenuifolia". Archived from the original on 2022-09-29. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
12. "Catalogue of Life: 2017 Annual Checklist Kirkia wilmsii". Archived from the original on 2022-09-29. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
13. "Kirkia; The Zimbabwe Journal of Botany. Harare, Zimbabwe | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
14. "Kirkia: journal of the Federal Herbarium, Salisbury, Rhodesia and Nyasaland". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 22 May 2020.