{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Kickxia elatine1.jpg |image_caption = ''Kickxia elatine'' |taxon = Kickxia |authority = Dumort.<ref name=POWO_37748-1/> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text. }}
'''''Kickxia''''' is a genus of plants in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). It includes several species known commonly as '''cancerworts''' or '''fluellins'''. Species are mostly native to Europe, Central Asia, and Africa,<ref name=":0" /> with two, ''K. elatine'' and ''K. spuria,'' well-established as invasive elsewhere.
==Taxonomy== The genus ''Kickxia'' was named after the Belgian botanist Jean Kickx.<ref name=":0"/><ref name= "HQ"/> Some species formerly placed in this genus have been reassigned to ''Nanorrhinum''.<ref name=YousZarrHeub16/>
===Species=== {{As of|2018|February}}, Plants of the World Online accepted the following ''Kickxia'' species:<ref name=POWO_37748-1/> {{Div col}} *''Kickxia aegyptiaca'' <small>(L.) Nábelek</small> *''Kickxia caucasica'' <small>(Muss.Puschk. ex Spreng.) Kuprian.</small> *''Kickxia cirrhosa'' <small>(L.) Fritsch</small> *''Kickxia collenetteana'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia commutata'' <small>(Bernh. ex Rchb.) Fritsch</small> *''Kickxia'' × ''confinis'' <small>(Lacroix) Soó</small> *''Kickxia corallicola'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia dentata'' <small>(Vahl) D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia elatine'' <small>(L.) Dumort.</small> - sharpleaf cancerwort *''Kickxia elatinoides'' <small>(Desf.) Rothm.</small> *''Kickxia floribunda'' <small>(Boiss.) Täckh. & Boulos</small> *''Kickxia glaberrima'' <small>(J.A.Schmidt) D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia gombaultii'' <small>(J.Thiébaut) Mouterde ex Charpin</small> *''Kickxia hartlii'' <small>(Betsche) D.Heller</small> *''Kickxia lanigera'' <small>(Desf.) Hand.-Mazz.</small> *''Kickxia membranacea'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia papillosa'' <small>R.R.Mill</small> *''Kickxia pendula'' <small>(G.Kunkel) G.Kunkel</small> *''Kickxia petiolata'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia pseudoscoparia'' <small>V.W.Sm. & D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia sabarum'' <small>V.W.Sm. & D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia saccata'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia scalarum'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia spiniflora'' <small>(O.Schwartz) D.A.Sutton</small> *''Kickxia spuria'' <small>(L.) Dumort.</small> - roundleaf cancerwort {{Div col end}}
==See also==
*Plants with common names that utilize Germanic suffix -wort
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=POWO_37748-1>{{citation |title=''Kickxia'' Dumort. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37748-1 |access-date=2018-02-03}}</ref>
<ref name= "HQ">{{cite book |last1=Hitchcock |first1=C. Leo |last2=Cronquist |first2=Arthur |date=2018 |title=Flora of the Pacific Northwest |edition=2nd|page=457|publisher= University of Washington Press |location= Seattle |isbn=978-0-29574-288-5}}</ref>
<ref name=YousZarrHeub16>{{Citation |last1=Yousefi |first1=Nafiseh |last2=Zarre |first2=Shahin |last3=Heubl |first3=Günther |date=2016 |title=Molecular phylogeny of the mainly Mediterranean genera ''Chaenorhinum'', ''Kickxia'' and ''Nanorrhinum'' (Plantaginaceae, tribe Antirrhineae), with focus on taxa in the Flora Iranica region |journal=Nordic Journal of Botany |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=455–463 |doi=10.1111/njb.01000 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref>
<ref name=":0">[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068777#page/560/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications</ref> }}
==External links== *[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?7177,7363 Jepson Manual Treatment] — ''invasive species in California''. *[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=KICKX USDA Plants Profile of ''Kickxia'']
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Category:Kickxia Category:Plantaginaceae genera Category:Flora of Europe