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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Goerkemia Yild. |
Goerkemia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It contains just one species, Goerkemia turcica Yild.
It is native to Turkey.
Its genus name of Goerkemia is in honour of Görkem Yıldırımlı (20th and 21st centuries), a Turkish plant collector and son of the botanist Şinasi Yıldırımlı (b. 1949); they both founded a herbarium. It was first described and published in Ot Sist. Bot. Dergisi Vol.6 Issue 2 on page 2 in (1999. publ. 2000).
References
- ^ "Goerkemia Yild. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
- "Goerkemia turcica Yild. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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