Ghikaea

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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| genus = Ghikaea

| parent_authority = Volkens & Schweinf.

| species = speciosa

| authority = (Rendle) Diels

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| Ghikaea spectabilis |Volkens & Schweinf.

| Graderia speciosa |Rendle }}

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Ghikaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orobanchaceae.{{cite web |title=Ghikaea Volkens & Schweinf. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37675-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 May 2021 |language=en}} The only species is Ghikaea speciosa.{{cite web |title=Ghikaea speciosa (Rendle) Diels {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:803349-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 September 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is Ethiopia, Somalia and northern Kenya.

The genus name of Ghikaea is in honour of Dimitrie Ghica-Comănești (1839–1923) a Romanian nobleman, explorer, famous hunter, adventurer and politician and also, Nicholae Dimitri Ghika (1875–1921), plant collector and was also Dimitrie's son.{{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 |access-date=1 January 2021}} It was first described and published in (H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl edited), Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. Vol.3 on page 314 in 1908.