Species Kickxia spuria

For Jean Kickx Sr (1775–1831) – Belgian professor of botany, pharmacy and mineralogy at a medical school in Brussels, and author of Flora bruxellensis (1812) and Tentamen Mineralogicum (1820) – and his son Jean Kickx Jr (1803–1864), who succeeded him (having obtained PhDs in pharmacy and science from Leuven in 1825), and took charge of the Science Museum in 1831. Later, he became a professor at the University of Brussels (1834) describing over 500 new taxa and authoring Flore Cryptogamique Des Environs de Louvain (Cryptogamic Plants of Leuven) (1835), which contains 754 species, and Flore Cryptogamique des Flandres (Cryptogamic Plants of Flanders), a work completed and published posthumously in 1867. A grandson, Jean Jacques Kickx (1842–1887), also became a professor of botany at the University of Ghent.