''Abolboda'' is a genus of

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s, traditionally and nowadays (

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and APG IV) assigned to family

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. It is native to

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and to the island of

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, generally on marshy

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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Wood, 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'')

References

Xyridaceae Poales genera Neotropical realm flora Taxa named by Alexander von Humboldt Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland {{Poales-stub