The genus name of
Zizkaea is in honour of Georg Zizka (b. 1955), a German evolutionary botanist and also specialist in Bromeliaceae. The Latin
specific epithet of
tuerckheimii refers to Hans von Türckheim (1853-1920), a German plant collector. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in
Phytotaxa Vol.279 on page 55 in 2016. ==Distribution==