Kirkia
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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Kirkia is a genus of plant in family Kirkiaceae.{{cite web |title=Kirkia Oliv. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38204-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}} 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, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|GCMG|KCB|FRS|sep=,|size=100%}} (1832–1922), who was a physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and British administrator in Zanzibar.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}
Species
It contains the following species (6[https://books.google.com/books?id=yoLaBAAAQBAJ&dq=Kirkia+leandrii&pg=PA272 The Flowering Plants Handbook]), but this list may be incomplete):
- Kirkia acuminata Oliv., 1868,[http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/browse/tree/id/dced760ba71e57710b9bbee635c1c667] Catalogue of Life: 2017 Annual Checklist Genus Kirkia South Africa (Transvaal), Namibia, Botswana, SW-Angola, SE-D.R. Congo (Zaire), Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique [http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/details/species/id/5c5b8e4bcb01c7a1a1689fbfec880585/source/tree Catalogue of Life: 2017 Annual Checklist Kirkia acuminata]
- Kirkia burgeri B. Stannard Ethiopia; Somalia{{cite iucn |author=World Conservation Monitoring Centre |date=1998 |title=Kirkia burgeri |volume=1998 |page=e.T62994A12600996 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T62994A12600996.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}
- Kirkia dewinteri Merxm. & Heine, 1960 Namibia {{cite iucn |author=Craven, P. |date=2004 |title=Kirkia dewinteri |volume=2004 |page=e.T34946A9900068 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T34946A9900068.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}
- Kirkia leandrii (Capuron) Stannard, 2007 Madagascar;[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/100366950 Tropicos] syn.: Pleiokirkia leandrii Capuron, 1961 [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/29400159 Tropicos Pleiokirkia leandrii][https://www.gbif.org/species/3709339 GBIF]
- Kirkia tenuifolia Engl., 1902 SE-Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya [http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/details/species/id/b95dcde887e78d78749e3aa4f3066b3d/source/tree Catalogue of Life: 2017 Annual Checklist Kirkia tenuifolia]
- Kirkia wilmsii Engl., South Africa (Transvaal) [http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017/details/species/id/cdac9c93a3effb48a30f2a68a67d834d/source/tree Catalogue of Life: 2017 Annual Checklist Kirkia wilmsii ]
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.{{cite web |title=Kirkia; The Zimbabwe Journal of Botany. Harare, Zimbabwe {{!}} International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/p/2451-2 |website=www.ipni.org |accessdate=22 May 2020}}{{cite web |title=Kirkia : journal of the Federal Herbarium, Salisbury, Rhodesia and Nyasaland |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5562290?q&versionId=6478918+244125540 |publisher=trove.nla.gov.au |accessdate=22 May 2020}}
References
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