Biology:Goerkemia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Goerkemia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Goerkemia
Yild.

Goerkemia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Brassicaceae.[1] It contains just one species, Goerkemia turcica Yild.[2]

It is native to Turkey.[1]

Its genus name of Goerkemia is in honour of Görkem Yıldırımlı (20th and 21st centuries), a Turkish plant collector and son of the botanist Şinasi Yıldırımlı (b. 1949); they both founded a herbarium.[3] It was first described and published in Ot Sist. Bot. Dergisi Vol.6 Issue 2 on page 2 in (1999. publ. 2000).[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q15942882 entry