''Schljakovia'' is a

monotypic genus In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...

liverwort Liverworts are a group of non-vascular land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry ...

s belonging to the family

Anastrophyllaceae Anastrophyllaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Jungermanniales Jungermanniales is the largest Order (biology), order of Marchantiophyta, liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps ...

. The only known species is ''Schljakovia kunzeana''. The genus was described by

Nadezhda Konstantinova Nadezhda may refer to: __NOTOC__ *Nadezhda (given name), people with the given name ''Nadezhda'' *Nadezhda (satellite), a series of Russian navigation satellites, of which one was launched in 1998 *2071 Nadezhda, an asteroid *Nadezhda (cockroach), ...

and Anna Alexandrovna Vilnet in Arctoa vol.18 on page 66 in 2009. It is native to Eurasia and Northern America. The genus name of ''Schljakovia'' is in honour of Roman Nicolaevich Schljakov (1912–1999), who was a Russian naturalist and

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

(Bryology and Lichenology) and

Geobotanist Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution o ...

. He worked at

Komarov Botanical Institute The Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences () is a leading botanical institution in Russia, It is located on Aptekarsky Island in St. Petersburg, and is named after the Russian botanist Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869– ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q17295238, from2=Q17295123 Jungermanniales Jungermanniales genera Monotypic bryophyte genera