Glekia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Scrophulariaceae. It only contains the one species, Glekia krebsiana (Benth.) Hilliard [1]

Glekia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Glekia
Hilliard
Synonyms

Phyllopodium krebsianum Benth.

Its native range is southern Africa. It is found in Lesotho and the Cape Provinces (region of South Africa).[1]

The genus name of Glekia is in honour of Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (1792–1844), a German apothecary and natural history collector,[2] and it was first described and published in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh Vol.45 on page 482 in (1988, publ. 1989).[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Glekia Hilliard | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  2. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.