Abolboda

Abolboda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Xyridaceae
Genus:	Abolboda Humb. & Bonpl.
species
see text

Abolboda is a genus of flowering plants, traditionally and nowadays (Kubitzki system and APG II) assigned to family Xyridaceae. It comprises about 17 species in South America, on marshy savanna.

List of species

Source: Index Kewensis (at IPNI) and Tropicos database (at Missouri Botanical Garden)

Note: Names with links indicate accepted names (synonyms added).

• Abolboda abbreviata Malme
• Abolboda acaulis Maguire
• Abolboda acicularis Idrobo & L.B.Sm.
• Abolboda americana (Aubl.) Lanj.

  Abolboda aubletii Kunth (synonym of Abolboda americana)

  Abolboda poeppigii Kunth (synonym of Abolboda americana)

  Abolboda imberbis Kunth (synonym of Abolboda americana)

  Abolboda inermis Link ex Steud. (synonym of Abolboda americana)

• Abolboda bella Maguire
• Abolboda ciliata Maguire & Wurdack
• Abolboda dunstervillei Maguire ex Kral
• Abolboda ebracteata Maguire & Wurdack
• Abolboda egleri L.B.Sm. & Downs
• Abolboda excelsa Malme
• Abolboda glomerata Maguire
• Abolboda grandis Griseb.

  Abolboda gleasoniana Steyerm. (synonym of Abolboda grandis var. rigida)

• Abolboda killipii Lasser

  Abolboda psammophila Maguire (synonym of Abolboda killipii)

• Abolboda linearifolia Maguire
• Abolboda macrostachya Spruce ex Malme

  Abolboda rigida (synonym of Abolboda macrostachya var. robustior)

• Abolboda minima Maguire
• Abolboda neblinae Maguire
• Abolboda paniculata Maguire
• Abolboda pervaginata Maguire
• Abolboda poarchon Seub.

  Abolboda chapadensis Hoehne (synonym of Abolboda poarchon)

• Abolboda pulchella Humb. & Bonpl.

  Abolboda brasiliensis Kunth (synonym of Abolboda pulchella)

  Abolboda gracilis Huber (synonym of Abolboda pulchella)

  Abolboda longifolia Malme (synonym of Abolboda pulchella)

  Abolboda vaginata Alb.Nillson (synonym of Abolboda pulchella)

• Abolboda scabrida Kral
• Abolboda sprucei Malme

  Abolboda schultesii Idrobo & L.B.Sm. (synonym of Abolboda sprucei)

• Abolboda uniflora Maguire

Excluded names

• Abolboda ptaritepuiana Steyerm. (synonym of Orectanthe ptaritepuiana)
• Abolboda sceptrum Oliv. (synonym of Orectanthe sceptrum)

References

• Tiemann A. 1985 Untersuchung zur Embryologie, Blutenmorphologie und Systematik der Rapataceen und der Xyridaceen-Gattung Abolboda (Monocotyledoneae). (Dissertationes Botanicae, Bd 82)- illus. J. Cramer : Vaduz 200p. (In German)