''Lecokia'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

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 Apiaceae. It just contains one species, Lecokia cretica (Lam.) DC. It is native to Cyprus, the East Aegean Islands, Iran, Crete, Lebanon, Palestine, South Caucasus (of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan), Syria, and Turkey. The genus name of ''Lecokia'' is in honour of

Henri Lecoq Henri Lecoq (18 April 1802 – 4 August 1871) was a French botanist. Charles Darwin mentioned this name in 1859 in the preface of his famous book On The Origin of Species as a believer in the modification of species. Darwin wrote: The work ref ...

(1802–1871), a French botanist. The genus has 2 known synonyms of ''Apolgusa'' and ''Conilaria'' 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 ''cretica'' means "coming from Crete, where the plant was found. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Coll. Mém. Vol.5 on page 67 in 1829.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q10316855, from2=Q17133704 Apioideae Plants described in 1829 Flora of Crete Flora of the Transcaucasus Flora of Western Asia Monotypic Apioideae genera