Zizkaea
Species of flowering plant
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Zizkaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It only contains one known species, Zizkaea tuerckheimii.[1]
| Zizkaea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
Taxonomy
The genus name of Zizkaea is in honour of Georg Zizka (b. 1955), a German evolutionary botanist and also specialist in Bromeliaceae.[2] The Latin specific epithet of tuerckheimii refers to Hans von Türckheim (1853-1920), a German plant collector.[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Phytotaxa Vol.279 on page 55 in 2016.[1][4]
Distribution
It is native to the Dominican Republic and Haiti on the island of Hispaniola.[1]