Quekettia is a small genus of orchids classified in the subtribe Oncidiinae. This genus is found in the humid lowlands of Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela, Ecuador and Trinidad.[2][3][4][5]
| Quekettia | |
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| Quekettia papillosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Tribe: | Cymbidieae |
| Subtribe: | Oncidiinae |
| Genus: | Quekettia Lindl., 1839 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Quekettia microscopica Lindl. in W.T.Aiton (1839)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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The trade of these orchids is controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival [6]
The name commemorates the author and microscopist Edwin John Quekett.[7]
Species
editSpecies accepted as of June 2014:[2]
- Quekettia microscopica Lindl. (French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, NE Brazil)
- Quekettia papillosa Garay (Suriname, Pará)
- Quekettia pygmaea (Cogn.) Garay & R.E.Schult. (Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Trinidad)
- Quekettia vermeuleniana Determann (Suriname)[8]
- formerly included[2]
moved to: Capanemia
- Q. australis - Capanemia micromera
- Q. carinata - Capanemia carinata
- Q. duseniana - Capanemia theresae
- Q. longirostellata - Capanemia theresae
- Q. micromera - Capanemia micromera
- Q. theresae - Capanemia theresae
References
edit- ^ Edwards's Botanical Register 25: Misc. 3. 1839
- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ 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.
- ^ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil [1] Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
- ^ Cogniaux, Célestin Alfred. 1910. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 6: 624, Ionopsis pygmaea, synonym of Quekettia pygmaea in Trinidad
- ^ CITES Appendix II
- ^ Boulger, George Simonds (1896). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Determann RO. 1981 A new species of Quekettia (Orchidaceae) from Surinam. Selbyana 5. (3 - 4): 306 - 307 (1981)
