Quekettia (Orchidaceae)

Quekettia papillosa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asparagales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Epidendroideae
Tribus: Cymbidieae
Subtribus: Oncidiinae
Genus: Quekettia

Overview of species (7)

Q. aureliae – Q. microscopica – Q. papillosa – Q. peruviana – Q. pygmaea – Q. senghasiana – Q. vermeuleniana

Name

Quekettia Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 25(Misc.): 3 (1839)

• Type species: Quekettia microscopica Lindl. (1839)

Synonymy

• Heterotypic
  • Stictophyllum Dodson & M.W.Chase, Icon. Pl. Trop., II, 6: t. 584 (1989), nom. illeg.
  • Stictophyllorchis Dodson & Carnevali, Lindleyana 8: 101 (1993)
  • Scolopendrogyne Szlach. & Mytnik, Richardiana 9: 205 (2009)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Southern America Caribbean Trinidad-Tobago. Northern South America French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela. Western South America Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru. Brazil Brazil Northeast, Brazil North. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Lindley, J. 1839. Edwards's Botanical Register 25(Misc.): 3.
• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) 2014. Genera Orchidacearum Volume 5: Epidendroideae (Part two); page 336 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850713-0
  

Links

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2022. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Quekettia. Accessed: 2022 Sep 6.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Quekettia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Sep 6. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Quekettia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Sep 6. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Quekettia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Sep 6. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Quekettia. Published online. Accessed: 6 Sep 2022.
• Tropicos.org 2022. Quekettia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 6 Sep 2022.

Vernacular names

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