Schiedea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Schiedea globosa - globe schiedea - stat-vulnerable - desc-flowers.jpg

|image_caption = Schiedea globosa

|taxon = Schiedea

|authority = Cham. & Schltdl.

|type_species = Schiedea ligustrina

|type_species_authority = Cham. & Schltdl.

|synonyms =

• Alsinidendron H.Mann (1866)
• Eucladus {{small|Nutt. ex Hook. (1844)}}

|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6450-1 Schiedea Cham. & Schltdl.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 March 2024.{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?10828 |title=Schiedea Cham. & Schltdl. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2004-01-16 |access-date=2009-11-16}}

}}

Schiedea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It contains 35 species which are endemic to Hawaii.{{cite journal |title=Monograph of Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae–Alsinoideae) |first1=Warren L. |last1=Wagner|first2=Stephen G. |last2=Weller|first3= Ann |last3=Sakai |author-link3=Ann Sakai|year=2005 |journal=Systematic Botany Monographs |volume=72 |pages=169 pp |isbn=0-912861-72-X}}

The 35th species was spotted in 2016 by Tom DeMent while surveying a forest near Laupāhoehoe on Hawai‘i Island.{{cite web | url=https://hanahou.com/25.3/the-reincarnation | title=The Reincarnation }} It was named S. haakoaensis in 2022.Wagner WL, Weller SG, Sakai AK, DeMent T, VanDeMark J (2022) Schiedea haakoaensis, a new facultatively autogamous species of Schiedea sect. Mononeura (Caryophyllaceae) from the Hawaiian Islands. PhytoKeys 210: 135-141. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.210.91226