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Genus of plants

Glekia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Glekia
Hilliard
Synonyms

Phyllopodium krebsianum Benth.

Glekia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Scrophulariaceae. It only contains the one species, Glekia krebsiana (Benth.) Hilliard

Its native range is southern Africa. It is found in Lesotho and the Cape Provinces (region of South Africa).

The genus name of Glekia is in honour of Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (1792ā€“1844), a German apothecary and natural history collector, and it was first described and published in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh Vol.45 on page 482 in (1988, publ. 1989).

References

  1. ^ "Glekia Hilliard | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  2. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, Dā€“L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
Taxon identifiers
Glekia
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