Theodorovia
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|taxon = Theodorovia
|authority = Kolak.
|synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=20005742-1 |title=Theodorovia karakuschensis (Grossh.) Kolak. |access-date=25 December 2021}}
|synonyms = {{species list
|Campanula hakkiarica |P.H.Davis
|Campanula karakuschensis |Grossh.
|Campanula minsteriana |Grossh.
|Fedorovia karakuschensis |(Grossh.) Kolak. }}
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Theodorovia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Campanulaceae.{{cite web |title=Theodorovia Kolak. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:956970-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=17 March 2021 |language=en}} It only contains one known species, Theodorovia karakuschensis {{small|(Grossh.) Kolak.}}
Its native range is Iran, the Transcaucasus and Turkey.
The genus name of Theodorovia is in honour of Andrey A. Fedorov (1908–1987), a Soviet Russian biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer, who was from 1970 a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.{{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}} The genus Theodorovia has the synonym Fedorovia {{small|Kolak.}} The plant is normally found on higher ground.
The genus was first circumscribed in Kolokol'chik. Kavkaza on pages 50-51 in 1991, to house a species which had previously been described in Campanula.
It has been used in Turkey in folk medicine to treat kidney stones.{{cite journal |last1=Görhan |first1=K. Ö. |last2=Öztürk |first2=F. |title=Ethnopharmacological survey of medicinal and foods plants in Derecik (Hakkari-Turkey) |journal=Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge |date=April 2021 |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=416-425}}