Dilkea
{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
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Dilkea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Passifloraceae.{{cite web |title=Dilkea Mast. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31752-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 May 2021 |language=en}}
Distribution
Etymology
The genus name of Dilkea is in honour of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet (1810–1869), an English politician.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}} It was published by Maxwell T. Masters in Trans. Linn. Soc. London Vol.27 on page 627 in 1871, after Dilke's death.
Taxonomy
=Species=
- Dilkea acuminata {{small|Mast.}}
- Dilkea clarkei {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea cuneata {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea exilis {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea granvillei {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea hebes {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea lecta {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea margaritae {{small|Cervi}}
- Dilkea nitens {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea ovalis {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea retusa {{small|Mast.}}
- Dilkea tillettii {{small|Feuillet}}
- Dilkea vanessae {{small|Feuillet}}