| Zizkaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Bromeliaceae |
| Subfamily: | Tillandsioideae |
| Genus: | Zizkaea W.Till & Barfuss |
| Species: | Z. tuerckheimii |
| Binomial name | |
| Zizkaea tuerckheimii (Mez) W.Till & Barfuss | |
Zizkaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It only contains one known species, Zizkaea tuerckheimii.
Taxonomy
The genus name of Zizkaea is in honour of Georg Zizka (b. 1955), a German evolutionary botanist and also specialist in Bromeliaceae. The Latin specific epithet of tuerckheimii refers to Hans von Türckheim (1853-1920), a German plant collector. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Phytotaxa Vol.279 on page 55 in 2016.
Distribution
It is native to the Dominican Republic and Haiti on the island of Hispaniola.
References
- ^ "Zizkaea W.Till & Barfuss | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- "Türckheim, Hans von | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- BARFUSS, Michael H.J.; Till, Walter (October 2016). "Taxonomic revision of Bromeliaceae subfam. Tillandsioideae based on a multi-locus DNA sequence phylogeny and morphology". Phytotaxa. 279 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.279.1.1.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Zizkaea | |
| Zizkaea tuerckheimii | |