''Xiphidium'' is a
genus of herbs in the family
Haemodoraceae
Haemodoraceae is a family of perennial herbaceous flowering plants with 14 genera and 102 known species. It is sometimes known as the "bloodwort family". Primarily a Southern Hemisphere family, they are found in South Africa, Australia and New ...
first described as a genus in 1775. It is native to tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere.
; species
[
* '']Xiphidium caeruleum
''Xiphidium'' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae first described as a genus in 1775. It is native to tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere.
; species
* '' Xiphidium caeruleum'' Aubl. - Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabas ...
'' Aubl. - 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 xanthorrhizon'' C.Wright ex Griseb. - western Cuba including Isla de la Juventud
Isla de la Juventud (; en, Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Islan ...
(formerly called Isle of Pines)
; formerly included[
''Xiphidium angustifolium - Schiekia orinocensis''
]
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.
References
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Haemodoraceae
Commelinales genera
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