{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Mechowia |authority = Schinz }} '''''Mechowia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Mechowia'' Schinz {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1242-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It is also in the Amaranthoideae subfamily.
It is native to Angola, Zambia and Zaïre (or Democratic Republic of the Congo).<ref name="POWO" /> The genus name of ''Mechowia'' is in honour of Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Mechow (1831–1890), a Prussian explorer of Africa, and a naturalist. Von Mechow was a specialty collector of phanerogams, particularly in Angola. He also held the rank of major in the Prussian Army.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It was first described and published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. Vol.3 (Issue 1a) on page 110 in 1893.<ref name="POWO"/>
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Mechowia grandiflora'' {{small|Schinz}} *''Mechowia redactifolia'' {{small|C.C.Towns.}}
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Category:Amaranthaceae Category:Amaranthaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1893 Category:Flora of Angola Category:Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Category:Flora of Zambia