title: Kickxia
text: # Kickxia
  
  Kickxia is a genus of plants in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae). It includes several species known commonly as cancerworts or fluellins. Species are mostly native to Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, with two, K. elatine and K. spuria, well-established as invasive elsewhere.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  The genus Kickxia was named after the Belgian botanist Jean Kickx. Some species formerly placed in this genus have been reassigned to Nanorrhinum.
  
  ### Species
  
  As of February 2018, Plants of the World Online accepted the following Kickxia species:
  
  * Kickxia aegyptiaca (L.) Nábelek
  * Kickxia caucasica (Muss.Puschk. ex Spreng.) Kuprian.
  * Kickxia cirrhosa (L.) Fritsch
  * Kickxia collenetteana D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia commutata (Bernh. ex Rchb.) Fritsch
  * Kickxia × confinis (Lacroix) Soó
  * Kickxia corallicola D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia dentata (Vahl) D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort. - sharpleaf cancerwort
  * Kickxia elatinoides (Desf.) Rothm.
  * Kickxia floribunda (Boiss.) Täckh. & Boulos
  * Kickxia glaberrima (J.A.Schmidt) D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia gombaultii (J.Thiébaut) Mouterde ex Charpin
  * Kickxia hartlii (Betsche) D.Heller
  * Kickxia lanigera (Desf.) Hand.-Mazz.
  * Kickxia membranacea D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia papillosa R.R.Mill
  * Kickxia pendula (G.Kunkel) G.Kunkel
  * Kickxia petiolata D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia pseudoscoparia V.W.Sm. & D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia sabarum V.W.Sm. & D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia saccata D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia scalarum D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia spiniflora (O.Schwartz) D.A.Sutton
  * Kickxia spuria (L.) Dumort. - roundleaf cancerwort
  