Guarianthe
| Guarianthe | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Guarianthe skinneri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Tribe: | Epidendreae |
| Subtribe: | Laeliinae |
| Alliance: | Cattleya |
| Genus: | Guarianthe Dressler & W.E. Higgins (2003) |
Guarianthe, abbreviated Gur. in the horticultural trade,[1] is a small genus of epiphytic orchids, growing in wet forests in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad.[2] It was separated from the bifoliate Cattleyas in 2003,[3] based on phylogenetic studies of nuclear DNA sequence data[4]
Species
- Guarianthe aurantiaca (Bateman) Dressler & W.E. Higgins - Widespread across much of Mexico, south to Costa Rica
- Guarianthe bowringiana (Veitch) Dressler & W.E. Higgins - Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
- Guarianthe patinii (Cogn.) Dressler & W.E. Higgins - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad; naturalized in Ecuador
- Guarianthe skinneri (Bateman) Dressler & W.E. Higgins - from Chiapas south to Panama
Natural hybrid
- Guarianthe × guatemalensis (T. Moore) W.E. Higgins = Gur. aurantiaca × Gur. skinneri[5] - Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
References
- ↑ http://www.rhs.org.uk/RHSWebsite/files/87/87be8b1e-908e-4e04-9ee6-30c438354458.pdf
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Dressler and Higgins: "Guarianthe, a Generic Name for the “Cattleya” skinneri Complex" Lankesteriana 7(2003)37—38
- ↑ van den Berg et al.: "A Phylogenetic Analysis of Laeliinae (Orchidaceae) based on Sequence Data from Internal Transcribed Spacers (ITS)of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA", Lindleyana 15(2)96—114. 2000.
- ↑ http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticulturaldatabase/orchidregister/orchiddetails.asp?ID=72538
- Thouars, L-M.A. du Petit- (1809) Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 1: 318.
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2009) Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 71 ff. Oxford University Press.
External links
Media related to Guarianthe at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Guarianthe at Wikispecies
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