''Succowia'' is a monotypic genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s belonging to the family Brassicaceae. It only contains one known species, ''Succowia balearica'' (L.) Medik. Its native range is the

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and places around the Mediterranean Sea, such as Algeria, the Baleares, Corsica, Italy, Morocco, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, and Tunisia. The genus name of ''Succowia'' is in honour of Georg Adolf Suckow (1751–1813), a German physicist, chemist, mineralogist, mining engineer and naturalist. The Latin

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

of ''balearica'' means "of the

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", where the plant was found. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Pflanzen-Gattungen on page 64 in 1792.

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{{Taxonbar, from1=Q3767493, from2=Q15627948 Brassicaceae Brassicaceae genera Plants described in 1792 Flora of Southwestern Europe Flora of Italy Flora of Sicily Flora of Algeria Flora of Morocco Flora of Tunisia