Goerkemia Explained

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

It is native to Turkey.

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).

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Goerkemia Yild. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 16 March 2021 . en.
  2. Web site: Goerkemia turcica Yild. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 16 September 2021 . en.
  3. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 1 January 2021.

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