Rhynchostele is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to Mexico, Central America and Venezuela.[2][3][4] The genus name is abbreviated as Rst. in the horticultural trade.
Rhynchostele | |
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Rhynchostele cordata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Orchidaceae |
Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
Tribe: | Cymbidieae |
Subtribe: | Oncidiinae |
Genus: | Rhynchostele Rchb.f. (1852)[1] |
Type species | |
Rhynchostele pygmaea (Lindl.) Rchb. f.
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Species | |
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Species
editAt the present time (May 2014), 19 species are accepted.[2][5][6]
- Rhynchostele aptera (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Durango to Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele bictoniensis (Bateman) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Oaxaca to Panama
- Rhynchostele candidula (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele cervantesii (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele cordata (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Puebla to Costa Rica, plus Venezuela
- Rhynchostele ehrenbergii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Hidalgo to Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele galeottiana (A.Rich.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele hortensiae (R.L.Rodr.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Costa Rica
- Rhynchostele × humeana (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele londesboroughiana (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Guerrero
- Rhynchostele maculata (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar
- Rhynchostele maculata subsp. maculata - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele maculata subsp. oestlundiana (L.O.Williams) Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez - from Veracruz to Costa Rica
- Rhynchostele maculata f. perotensis Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez - Veracruz, Puebla
- Rhynchostele madrensis (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele majalis (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Tabasco to Guatemala
- Rhynchostele oscarii Archila - Guatemala
- Rhynchostele pygmaea (Lindl.) Rchb.f. - Guatemala and Chiapas
- Rhynchostele rossii (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Querétaro to Nicaragua
- Rhynchostele stellata (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Chiapas to Costa Rica, plus Venezuela
- Rhynchostele uroskinneri (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Guatemala and Chiapas
- Rhynchostele × vexativa (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - collected somewhere in Mexico c 1875, now probably extinct
See also
edit- List of Orchidaceae genera
- × Oncostele, a hybrid genus with at least one Rhynchostele ancestor
References
edit- ^ Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav. 1852. Botanische Zeitung (Berlin) 10(44): 770
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Soto Arenas, Miguel Angel & Salazar Chávez, Gerardo Adolfo. 1993. Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s. 13(1–2): 150.
- ^ Hágsater, E. & M. Soto. 2003. Orchids of Mexico. Icones Orchidacearum (Mexico) 5–6: i–xxii, t. 501–t. 700.
- ^ CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
- ^ Dressler, R.L. 2003. Orchidaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 3. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 1–595.
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2009). Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 340 ff. Oxford University Press.
- Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart
External links
edit- Media related to Rhynchostele at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Rhynchostele at Wikispecies
- Orchidroots.org Rhynchostele Species