Crepidium

Crepidium
Crepidium quadridentatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Class: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Malaxideae
Genus: Crepidium
Blume[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Pterochilus Hook. & Arn.
  • Pseudoliparis Finet
  • Fingardia Szlach.
  • Seidenfia Szlach.
  • Saurolophorkis Marg. & Szlach.
  • Seidenforchis Marg.

Crepidium is a genus of orchids. It used to be considered as a synonym of the genus Malaxis, but eventually it has become an accepted name.[3] The genus contains well over 200 species, native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia (Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, etc), northern Australia, New Guinea, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[2][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Search Results" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Crepidium Blume in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  4. ↑ Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2006). Epidendroideae (Part One). Genera Orchidacearum 4: 1-672. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  5. ↑ Flora of China v 25 p 229, 沼兰属 zhao lan shu, Crepidium Blume, Bijdr. 387. 1825.

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