Duckea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|taxon = Duckea

|authority = Maguire

|type_species = Duckea cyperaceoidea

|type_species_authority = (Ducke) Maguire

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Duckea is a group of plants in the family Rapateaceae described as a genus in 1958.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44052942#page/53/mode/1up Maguire, Bassett. 1958. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 10(1): 41-45] descriptions of new taxa in Latin, commentary in English[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40036205 Tropicos, Duckea Maguire]

The genus is endemic to South America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=232666 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

; Species

• Duckea cyperaceoidea (Ducke) Maguire - SE Colombia, S Venezuela (Amazonas), N Brazil (Pará, Amazonas)
• Duckea flava (Link) Maguire - SE Colombia, S Venezuela (Amazonas), N Brazil (Amazonas)
• Duckea junciformis Maguire - SE Colombia (Vaupés), S Venezuela (Amazonas)
• Duckea squarrosa (Willd. ex Link) Maguire - S Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar), N Brazil (Amazonas)