Poskea

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|taxon = Poskea

|authority = Vatke

|synonyms = Cockburnia {{small|Balf.f.}}

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Poskea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.{{cite web |title=Poskea Vatke {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4762-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=28 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to Somalia, Socotra and Yemen.

The genus name of Poskea is in honour of Friedrich Poske (1852–1925), a German teacher and natural scientist in Berlin.{{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 first described and published in Linnaea Vol.43 on page 321 in 1882.