Menkea
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}}
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| image = Menkea sphaerocarpa flowers.jpg
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| taxon = Menkea
| authority = Lehm.
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Menkea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.{{cite web |title=Menkea Lehm. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12790-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 May 2021 |language=en}} Species of the genus are native to Australia.
Taxonomy
The genus name of Menkea is in honour of Karl Theodor Menke (1791–1861), a German malacologist and balneologist who was a native of Bremen. He is remembered for his research on snails.{{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 in 1843.
Known species
- Menkea australis {{small|Lehm.}}
- Menkea crassa {{small|E.A.Shaw}}
- Menkea draboides {{small|(Hook.) Benth.}}
- Menkea lutea {{small|E.A.Shaw}}
- Menkea sphaerocarpa {{small|F.Muell.}}
- Menkea villosula {{small|(F.Muell. & Tate) J.M.Black}}