''Suksdorfia'' is a genus in the family

Saxifragaceae Saxifragaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, within the core eudicot order Saxifragales. The taxonomy of the family has been greatly revised and the scope much reduced in the era of molecular phylogenetic analysis. The fa ...

. It has only two accepted species, '' Suksdorfia alchemilloides'' and '' Suksdorfia violacea'', native to central South America and northwestern North America, respectively. Asa Gray named the genus ''Suksdorfia'' after

Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf (September 15, 1850 – October 3, 1932) was a German–American botanist who specialized in the flora of the Pacific Northwest. He was largely self-taught and is considered one of the top three self-taught botanists ...

, a mostly self-taught German botanist who came to the United States at age eight and found the species ''S. violacea'' in the northwestern United States. ''S. violacea'' is the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

for this genus. Since the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature of 1906, the genus name ''Suksdorfia'' Gray, published in 1879, has been conserved against the earlier name ''Hemieva'' Raf., which had been published in 1837 with the type species ''Hemieva ranunculifolia'' (Hook.) Raf. (based on ''Saxifraga ranunculifolia'' Hook., published in 1832).

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Saxifragaceae Saxifragaceae genera Flora of the Americas Taxa named by Asa Gray {{Saxifragaceae-stub