Otoglossum is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to South America and Central America.[1][2][3][4]
Otoglossum | |
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Otoglossum harlingii | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Orchidaceae |
Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
Tribe: | Cymbidieae |
Subtribe: | Oncidiinae |
Genus: | Otoglossum (Schltr.) Garay & Dunst. |
Type species | |
Otoglossum hoppii | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
editThey are plants of ovoid pseudobulbs spaced in long, along a creeping or ascending upward rhizomes, with thick and tanned leathery leaves. The inflorescence is axillary, racemosa, erect, starting from the sheaths of the pseudobulbs, racemous, erect, with many rather large and wavy or curly, rounded flowers.
The petals and sepals have similar shapes and sizes, with very frizzy, oval, large margins, somewhat concave. The lip is inserted at the base of the column. The spine is short, sometimes with dorsal calluses. The spine is short, apodes, sometimes with dorsal calluses before the stigmatic cavity, small wings or auricles, and terminal anther somewhat inserted under the terminal margins of the spine.
Taxonomy
editIn 2001 Mark W. Chase and Norris Williams subordinated the Oncidium section Serpentia to Otoglossum. The species in this section, Oncidium serpens, Oncidium sanctipauli, Oncidium harlingii and Oncidium globuliferum, have few and widely spaced flowers at first glance, very similar to those of Oncidium varicosum, long repeating rhizomes like those of Rodriguezia, show frequent sprouting of new plants in the nodules of ancient floral stems, and morphologically have little in common with Otoglossum other than the scandal habit.
Species
editSection | Image | Name | Distribution | Elevation (m) |
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section Otoglossum | Otoglossum arminii (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. | Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil | 1,800–2,700 metres (5,900–8,900 ft) | |
Otoglossum axinopterum (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. | Ecuador | 500–2,500 metres (1,600–8,200 ft) | ||
Otoglossum brachypterum (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. | Peru | |||
Otoglossum candelabrum (Linden ex Pérot) Jenny & Garay | Colombia, Ecuador | 1,500–1,600 metres (4,900–5,200 ft) | ||
Otoglossum chiriquense (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. | Costa Rica, Panama | 800–3,000 metres (2,600–9,800 ft) | ||
Otoglossum dayanum (Rchb.f.) Jenny & Garay | Peru | |||
Otoglossum hoppii (Schltr.) Garay & Dunst. | Colombia | |||
Otoglossum virolinense P.Ortiz & Jenny | Colombia | 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) | ||
Otoglossum weberbauerianum (Kraenzl.) Garay & Dunst. | Peru | 2,000–2,300 metres (6,600–7,500 ft) | ||
section Brevilongium | Otoglossum brevifolium (Lindl.) Garay & Dunst. | Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia | 900–2,800 metres (3,000–9,200 ft) | |
Otoglossum harlingii (Stacy) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase | Ecuador | 1,800–3,100 metres (5,900–10,200 ft) | ||
Otoglossum globuliferum (Kunth) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase | Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru | 400–2,400 metres (1,300–7,900 ft) | ||
Otoglossum palaciosii (Dodson) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams | Ecuador | 1,650 metres (5,410 ft) | ||
Otoglossum sancti-pauli (Kraenzl.) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase | Colombia, Venezuela | 1,100–1,300 metres (3,600–4,300 ft) | ||
Otoglossum scansor (Rchb.f.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez in J.A.Steyermark & al. | Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil | 750–1,950 metres (2,460–6,400 ft) | ||
Otoglossum serpens (Lindl.) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru | 1,500–2,700 metres (4,900–8,900 ft) |
Distribution
editOtoglossum, according to its new definition already expanded to include the aforementioned section of Oncidium, then groups about thirteen epiphytic species, occasionally terrestrial, in rule of scandal growth, that inhabit humid, fresh and cold mountainous areas from Costa Rica to Peru until the altitude of three thousand meters, over trees or rocky escarpments. Three species registered for Brazil, two belonging to the old section of Odontoglossum and one to Oncidium.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Szlachetko, Dariusz L. & Kolanowska, Marta (2014). "Generic delimitation of the genera Brevilongium and Otoglossum (Orchidaceae) with description of new species from Colombia and Panama". Plant Biosystems. 148 (6): 1148–1159. Bibcode:2014PBios.148.1148S. doi:10.1080/11263504.2014.916363.
- ^ Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2009). Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 1-585. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
- ^ Jenny, R. (2010). Otoglossum, una revisión taxonómica. Orquideología 27: 63-95.
Further reading
edit- 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 Otoglossum at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Otoglossum at Wikispecies