''Schljakovia'' is a

monotypic genus In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

liverwort The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of g ...

s belonging to the family

Anastrophyllaceae Anastrophyllaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Jungermanniales Jungermanniales is the largest order of liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps on either side of the stem. Most ot ...

. The only known species is ''Schljakovia kunzeana''. The genus was described by Nadezhda Konstantinova and Anna Alexandrovna Vilnet in Arctoa vol.18 on page 66 in 2009. It is native to Eurasia and Northern America. The genus name of ''Schljakovia'' is in honour of Roman Nicolaevich Schljakov (1912–1999), who was a Russian naturalist and

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

(Bryology and Lichenology) and

Geobotanist Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution o ...

. He worked at

Komarov Botanical Institute The Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (russian: Ботанический институт им. В.Л.Комарова РАН) is a leading botanical institution in Russia, It is located on Aptekarsky Island in St. Peter ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q17295238, from2=Q17295123 Jungermanniales Jungermanniales genera Monotypic bryophyte genera