Basiphyllaea

crab orchids
Carter's orchid
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Bletiinae[1]
Genus: Basiphyllaea
Schltr.[2]
Type species
Basiphyllaea sarcophylla
(Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Synonyms[3]

Carteria Small, Torreya 10: 187 (1910), illegitimate, not Diesing 1866.

Basiphyllaea is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), known as crab orchids.[4] They are native to Florida and the West Indies. At the present time (May 2014), 7 species are recognized:[3]

References

  1. Victoria Sosa "A Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Study of Subtribe Bletiinae(Epidendreae, Orchidaceae)" Systematic Botany (2007), 32(1): pp. 34–42
  2. Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1921. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 17: 77
  3. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 33-34, 2000.

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