''Rondonanthus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

Eriocaulaceae The Eriocaulaceae are a family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the order Poales, commonly known as the pipewort family. The family is large, with about 1207 known species described in seven genera. They are widely distri ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to northern

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Species

#'' Rondonanthus acopanensis'' (Moldenke) Hensold & Giul. - Bolívar State of Venezuela #'' Rondonanthus capillaceus'' (Klotzsch ex Körn.) Hensold & Giul. - Bolívar and Amazonas States of Venezuela; Guyana, northern Brazil #'' Rondonanthus caulescens'' (Moldenke) Hensold & Giul. - Aprada-tepui of Venezuela #'' Rondonanthus duidae'' (Gleason) Hensold & Giul - Bolívar and Amazonas States of Venezuela; northern Brazil #'' Rondonanthus flabelliformis'' (Moldenke) Hensold & Giul. - Toronó-tepui of Venezuela #'' Rondonanthus roraimae'' (Oliv.) Herzog -

Mount Roraima Mount Roraima (; ) is the highest of the Pacaraima chain of tepuis (table-top mountain) or plateaux in South America. It is located at the junction of Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. A characteristic large flat-topped mountain surrounded by cliff ...

along Venezuela/Guyana border

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9070642 Eriocaulaceae Flora of Southern America Flora of the Tepuis