# Succowia

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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Succowia balearica135.jpg
|image_caption = ''Succowia balearica''
|taxon = Succowia
|authority = [Medik.](/source/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](/source/monotypic_genus) of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s belonging to the family [Brassicaceae](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Georg_Adolf_Suckow) (1751–1813), a German physicist, chemist, [mineralogist](/source/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](/source/binomial_nomenclature) of ''balearica'' means "of the [Balearic Islands](/source/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/>

==References==
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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

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