Hexalectris

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Hexalectris
Hexalectris spicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Arethuseae
Subtribe: Bletiinae[1]
Genus: Hexalectris
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Species
  • Hexalectris grandiflora
  • Hexalectris nitida
  • Hexalectris spicata
  • etc.

Hexalectris is a genus of the family Orchidaceae, comprising 7 species of fully myco-heterotrophic orchids.[2] These species are found in North America, with center of diversity in northern Mexico.

Species

  • Hexalectris arizonica (S.Watson) A.H.Kenn. & L.E.Watson (2010)
  • Hexalectris brevicaulis L.O.Williams (1940)
  • Hexalectris colemanii (Catling) A.H.Kenn. & L.E.Watson (2010)
  • Hexalectris fallax M.I.Rodr. & R.González (2005)
  • Hexalectris grandiflora (A.Rich. & Galeotti) L.O.Williams (1944)
  • Hexalectris nitida L.O.Williams (1944)
  • Hexalectris parviflora L.O.Williams (1940)
  • Hexalectris revoluta Correll (1941)
  • Hexalectris spicata (Walter) Barnhart (1904) - Type species -
  • Hexalectris warnockii Ames & Correll (1943

References

  1. ↑ Victoria Sosa "A Molecular and Borphological Phylogenetic Study of Subtribe Bletiinae (Epidendreae, Orchidaceae)" Systematic Botany (2007), 32)1): pp. 34-42 retrieved from http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1600/036364407780360175?cookieSet=1
  2. ↑ "Flora of North America". 

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