Abolboda

Taxobox
name = "Abolboda"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Xyridaceae
genus = "Abolboda"
genus_authority = Humb. & Bonpl.
subdivision_ranks = species
subdivision = 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 speciesSource: Index Kewensis (at [http://www.ipni.org/ IPNI] ) and Tropicos database (at [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html 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)