{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Transactionsofro311888roy_0843.jpg |image_caption = |taxon = Poskea |authority = Vatke |synonyms = ''Cockburnia'' {{small|Balf.f.}} }} '''''Poskea''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plantaginaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{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}}</ref>
It is native to Somalia, Socotra and Yemen.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Poskea'' is in honour of Friedrich Poske (1852–1925), a German teacher and natural scientist in Berlin.<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 Linnaea Vol.43 on page 321 in 1882.<ref name="POWO"/>
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Poskea africana'' {{small|Vatke}} *''Poskea socotrana'' {{small|(Balf.f.) G.Taylor}}
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Category:Plantaginaceae Category:Plantaginaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1882 Category:Flora of Somalia Category:Flora of Socotra Category:Flora of Yemen