Schenkia spicata is a species of annual herb in the family Gentianaceae.

It has a very wide old world distribution, ranging from north Africa, through Europe and into Asia.

It was first published as Gentiana spicata by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species plantarum.

It was later transferred into Erythraea and then Centaurium, under a broad circumscription of the latter genus that was subsequently found to be polyphyletic.

Therefore, the Australian specimens were segregated into a new species, Schenkia australis.