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Schiedea
Sign in to saveSchiedea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It contains 35 species which are endemic to Hawaii.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyCaryophyllaceae
Native toHawaii
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 90
- With media
- 54
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Collections
- NY, NHMUK, BPBM
- Recorded in
- United States, Honduras
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Schiedea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It contains 35 species which are endemic to Hawaii.
The 35th species was spotted in 2016 by Tom DeMent while surveying a forest near Laupāhoehoe on Hawai‘i Island. It was named S. haakoaensis in 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schiedea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.