Schiekia

Schiekia orinocensis
	Schiekia orinocensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Commelinales
Family:	Haemodoraceae
Genus:	Schiekia; Maguire & Wurdack
Binomial name
	Schiekia orinocensis ; Maguire & Wurdack
Synonyms
	Troschelia Klotzsch & M.R.Schomb.; Wachendorfia orinocensis Kunth; Troschelia orinocensis (Kunth) Klotzsch & M.R.Schomb.; Xiphidium angustifolium Willd. ex Link; Schiekia flavescens Maury;

Schiekia is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae, first described as a genus in 1957.^[2]^[3] It contains only one recognized species, Schiekia orinocensis, native to South America (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana).^[1]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Schiekia orinocensis subsp. orinocensis - Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
Schiekia orinocensis subsp. silvestris Maas & Stoel - N Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Meisner, Carl Daniel Friedrich. 1842. Plantarum vascularium genera :secundum ordines naturales digesta eorumque differentiae et affinitates tabulis diagnostacis expositae 2(12): 300 in Latin
^ Tropicos, Schiekia Meisn.
^ Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
^ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
^ Maas, P. J. M. & H. Maas van de Kamer. 1993. Haemodoraceae. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 61: 1–44.

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