Abolboda is a genus of flowering plants, traditionally and nowadays (Kubitzki system and APG IV) assigned to family Xyridaceae. It is native to tropical South America and to the island of Trinidad, generally on marshy savanna.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesTiemann 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)Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil . Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de JaneiroWood, J. R. I., F. Mamani M., P. Pozo, J. D. Soto & D. Villarroel Segarra. (eds.) 2011. Guía Darwin de las plantas de los cerrados de la Chiquitania 1–212. Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Species Abolboda abbreviata Malme - Pará in Brazil Abolboda acaulis Maguire - Venezuela, Guyana Abolboda acicularis Idrobo & L.B.Sm. - Venezuela, Colombia Abolboda americana (Aubl.) Lanj. - Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Brazil Abolboda bella Maguire - Cerro Yapacana in Venezuela Abolboda ciliata Maguire & Wurdack - Sierra de la Neblina in Venezuela Abolboda dunstervillei Maguire ex Kral - Cerro Avispa in Venezuela Abolboda ebracteata Maguire & Wurdack - Venezuela, Colombia Abolboda egleri L.B.Sm. & Downs - Venezuela, Colombia, Pará Abolboda × glomerata Maguire - Venezuela (A. linearifolia × A. macrostachya) Abolboda grandis Griseb. - Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, northwestern Brazil Abolboda granularis (Maguire) L.M.Campb. & Kral - Venezuela, Colombia Abolboda killipii Lasser - Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, northwestern Brazil Abolboda linearifolia Maguire - State of Amazonas in southern Venezuela Abolboda macrostachya Spruce ex Malme - Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil Abolboda neblinae Maguire - Sierra de la Neblina in Venezuela, northwestern Brazil Abolboda paniculata Maguire - Venezuela, northwestern Brazil Abolboda poarchon Seub. - Brazil, Paraguay Abolboda pulchella Humb. & Bonpl. - Venezuela, Colombia, the Guianas, Brazil Abolboda scabrida Kral - Cerro Aracamuni in Venezuela Abolboda sprucei Malme - Colombia, State of Amazonas in southern Venezuela Abolboda uniflora Maguire - Cerro Duida in Venezuela
Formerly included Abolboda ptaritepuiana Steyerm. (synonym of Orectanthe ptaritepuiana) Abolboda sceptrum Oliv. (synonym of Orectanthe sceptrum)
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