# Kickxia

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Kickxia elatine1.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Kickxia elatine](/source/Kickxia_elatine)''
|taxon = Kickxia
|authority = [Dumort.](/source/Barth%C3%A9lemy_Charles_Joseph_Dumortier)<ref name=POWO_37748-1/>
|subdivision_ranks = [Species](/source/Species)
|subdivision = See text.
}}

'''''Kickxia''''' is a genus of plants in the plantain family ([Plantaginaceae](/source/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.&nbsp;elatine'' and ''K.&nbsp;spuria,'' well-established as [invasive](/source/Invasive_species) elsewhere.

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Kickxia'' was named after the [Belgian](/source/Belgians) botanist [Jean Kickx](/source/Jean_Kickx_(1775%E2%80%931831)).<ref name=":0"/><ref name= "HQ"/> Some species formerly placed in this genus have been reassigned to ''[Nanorrhinum](/source/Nanorrhinum)''.<ref name=YousZarrHeub16/>

===Species===
{{As of|2018|February}}, [Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) accepted the following ''Kickxia'' species:<ref name=POWO_37748-1/>
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*''[Kickxia aegyptiaca](/source/Kickxia_aegyptiaca)'' <small>(L.) Nábelek</small>
*''[Kickxia caucasica](/source/Kickxia_caucasica)'' <small>(Muss.Puschk. ex Spreng.) Kuprian.</small>
*''[Kickxia cirrhosa](/source/Kickxia_cirrhosa)'' <small>(L.) Fritsch</small>
*''[Kickxia collenetteana](/source/Kickxia_collenetteana)'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia commutata](/source/Kickxia_commutata)'' <small>(Bernh. ex Rchb.) Fritsch</small>
*[''Kickxia'' × ''confinis''](/source/Kickxia_%C3%97_confinis) <small>(Lacroix) Soó</small>
*''[Kickxia corallicola](/source/Kickxia_corallicola)'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia dentata](/source/Kickxia_dentata)'' <small>(Vahl) D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia elatine](/source/Kickxia_elatine)'' <small>(L.) Dumort.</small> - sharpleaf cancerwort
*''[Kickxia elatinoides](/source/Kickxia_elatinoides)'' <small>(Desf.) Rothm.</small>
*''[Kickxia floribunda](/source/Kickxia_floribunda)'' <small>(Boiss.) Täckh. & Boulos</small>
*''[Kickxia glaberrima](/source/Kickxia_glaberrima)'' <small>(J.A.Schmidt) D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia gombaultii](/source/Kickxia_gombaultii)'' <small>(J.Thiébaut) Mouterde ex Charpin</small>
*''[Kickxia hartlii](/source/Kickxia_hartlii)'' <small>(Betsche) D.Heller</small>
*''[Kickxia lanigera](/source/Kickxia_lanigera)'' <small>(Desf.) Hand.-Mazz.</small>
*''[Kickxia membranacea](/source/Kickxia_membranacea)'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia papillosa](/source/Kickxia_papillosa)'' <small>R.R.Mill</small>
*''[Kickxia pendula](/source/Kickxia_pendula)'' <small>(G.Kunkel) G.Kunkel</small>
*''[Kickxia petiolata](/source/Kickxia_petiolata)'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia pseudoscoparia](/source/Kickxia_pseudoscoparia)'' <small>V.W.Sm. & D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia sabarum](/source/Kickxia_sabarum)'' <small>V.W.Sm. & D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia saccata](/source/Kickxia_saccata)'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia scalarum](/source/Kickxia_scalarum)'' <small>D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia spiniflora](/source/Kickxia_spiniflora)'' <small>(O.Schwartz) D.A.Sutton</small>
*''[Kickxia spuria](/source/Kickxia_spuria)'' <small>(L.) Dumort.</small> - roundleaf cancerwort
{{Div col end}}

==See also==

*[Plants with common names that utilize Germanic suffix -wort](/source/List_of_wort_plants)

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=POWO_37748-1>{{citation |title=''Kickxia'' Dumort. |work=[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_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

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