Thurya

Thurya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Thurya
Boiss. & Balansa
Species:
T. capitata
Binomial name
Thurya capitata
Boiss. & Balansa

Thurya is a monotypic genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. It only contains one known species, Thurya capitata.

It is native to Turkey.

The genus name of Thurya is in honour of Jean Marc Antoine Thury (1822–1905), a Swiss naturalist and professor of botany at the University of Geneva. The Latin specific epithet of capitata means having dense-headed growth and is derived from capitatus. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient., series.2, Vol.5 on pages 63-64 in 1856.