''Schuitemania'' is a genus of terrestrial orchids spreading by means of underground

rhizomes In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...

. Only one species is known, ''Schuitemania merrillii'', endemic to the Philippines.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> Named after Kew orchid specialist and lead botanist for Asia,

André Schuiteman André Schuiteman (born 1960, Amsterdam) is a Dutch botanist in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, United Kingdom, where he is the Research Leader for Asia in Plant Identification and Naming. '' Schuitemania'', a genus of orchid, was named ...

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Monotypic Orchidoideae genera Cranichideae genera Goodyerinae Endemic orchids of the Philippines {{Orchidoideae-stub