{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Succowia balearica135.jpg |image_caption = ''Succowia balearica'' |taxon = Succowia |authority = Medik. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=Species>{{cite POWO |id=1104224-2 |title=''Succowia balearica'' (L.) Medik.|access-date=20 December 2021}}</ref> |synonyms = {{species list |Biscutella balearia |L'Hér. ex DC. |Bunias balearica |L. |Myagrum balearicum |(L.) Lam. |Succowia echinata |Moench }} }} '''''Succowia''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Succowia'' Medik. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:13093-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=23 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It only contains one known species, '''''Succowia balearica''''' <small>(L.) Medik.</small>
Its native range is the Canary Islands and places around the Mediterranean Sea, such as Algeria, the Baleares, Corsica, Italy, Morocco, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, and Tunisia.<ref name="POWO"/>
The genus name of ''Succowia'' is in honour of Georg Adolf Suckow (1751–1813), a German physicist, chemist, mineralogist, mining engineer and naturalist.<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 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> The Latin specific epithet of ''balearica'' means "of the Balearic Islands", where the plant was found. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Pflanzen-Gattungen on page 64 in 1792.<ref name="POWO"/><ref name=Species/>
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Category:Brassicaceae Category:Monotypic Brassicaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1792 Category:Flora of Southwestern Europe Category:Flora of Italy Category:Flora of Sicily Category:Flora of Algeria Category:Flora of Morocco Category:Flora of Tunisia