Xiphidium

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{automatic taxobox |image =Xiphidium caeruleum.jpg |image_caption = ''Xiphidium caeruleum'' |taxon = Xiphidium |authority = Aubl. (1775) |type_species = ''Xiphidium caeruleum'' |type_species_authority = Aubl. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = *''Xiphidium caeruleum'' {{small|Aubl.}} *''Xiphidium pontederiiflorum'' {{small|M.Pell., Hopper & Rhian J.Sm.}} |subdivision_ref =<ref name = powo>{{cite web|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329985-2|title= ''Xiphidium'' Aubl. |website = Plants of the World Online |publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date = 21 April 2024}}</ref> }}

'''''Xiphidium''''' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae first described as a genus in 1775.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/362009#page/67/mode/1up|title=v.1 - Histoire des plantes de la Guiane Françoise : - Biodiversity Heritage Library|work=biodiversitylibrary.org|date=1775 |volume=v.1 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017004 Tropicos, ''Tribonanthes'' Endl.]</ref> It is native to tropical Americas, from southern Mexico through the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America to Bolivia and central Brazil.<ref name=powo/>

==species== Two species are accepted.<ref name=powo/> * ''Xiphidium caeruleum'' <small>Aubl.</small> - Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Puebla, Yucatán), Central America (all 7 countries), West Indies, South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Maranhão, Amapá), Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia) *''Xiphidium pontederiiflorum'' {{small|M.Pell., Hopper & Rhian J.Sm.}} – Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador

==formerly placed here== * ''Schiekia orinocensis'' {{small|(Kunth) Meisn.}} (as ''Xiphidium angustifolium'' {{small|Willd. ex Link}})<ref name=w>{{cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=272444|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|work=kew.org}}</ref> * ''Cubanicula xanthorrhizos'' {{small|(C.Wright ex Griseb.) Hopper, J.E.Gut., E.J.Hickman, M.Pell. & Rhian J.Sm.}} (as ''Xiphidium xanthorrhizon'' <small>C.Wright ex Griseb.</small>)<ref>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77213182-1 ''Cubanicula xanthorrhizos'' (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Hopper, J.E.Gut., E.J.Hickman, M.Pell. & Rhian J.Sm.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 21 April 2024.</ref>

== Phylogeny == Comparison of homologous DNA has increased the insight in the phylogenetic relationships between the genera in the Haemodoroideae subfamily. The following trees represent those insights.<ref>{{cite journal|first1= Stephen D.|last1= Hopper|first2= Rhian J.|last2= Smith|first3= Michael F.|last3= Fay|first4= John C.|last4= Manning|first5= Mark W.|last5= Chase|year= 2009|title= Molecular phylogenetics of Haemodoraceae in the Greater Cape and Southwest Australian Floristic Regions|journal= Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume= 51|issue= 1|pages= 19–30|doi= 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.015|pmid= 19063982|bibcode= 2009MolPE..51...19H}}</ref> {{clade|style= line-height:122%|label1=subfamily Haemodoroideae |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=''Dilatris'' |2={{clade |1=''Lachnanthes'' |2=''Haemodorum'' }} }} |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=''Barberetta'' |2=''Wachendorfia'' }} |2={{clade |1=''Schiekia'' |2='''''Xiphidium''''' }} }} }} }}

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Category:Haemodoraceae Category:Commelinales genera Category:Flora of the Neotropical realm Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet