Cryptocentrum

Cryptocentrum
Coconut Pie Orchid
(Cryptocentrum latifolium)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Maxillarieae
Subtribe: Maxillariinae
Genus: Cryptocentrum
Benth.
Synonyms[1]
  • Anthosiphon Schltr.
  • Pittierella Schltr.

Cryptocentrum is a neotropical genus of orchid that grows as far north as Nicaragua and south to Bolivia, with twenty species known to date. The Guayana Region is also fostering two species.[2]

Species

Species currently accepted (May 2014) include:[2]

  1. Cryptocentrum beckendorfii Carnevali - Peru
  2. Cryptocentrum caespitosum Carnevali - Panama
  3. Cryptocentrum calcaratum (Schltr.) Schltr. - Panama, Costa Rica
  4. Cryptocentrum dodsonii Carnevali - Ecuador
  5. Cryptocentrum dunstervilleorum Carnevali & G.A.Romero - Venezuela, Guyana
  6. Cryptocentrum escobarii Carnevali - Colombia
  7. Cryptocentrum flavum Schltr. - Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador
  8. Cryptocentrum gracilipes Schltr. - Panama, Costa Rica
  9. Cryptocentrum gracillimum Ames & C.Schweinf. - Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela
  10. Cryptocentrum hirtzii Dodson - Ecuador
  11. Cryptocentrum inaequisepalum C.Schweinf. - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
  12. Cryptocentrum latifolium Schltr. - Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
  13. Cryptocentrum lehmannii (Rchb.f.) Garay - Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama
  14. Cryptocentrum longipetalum Carnevali - Colombia, Ecuador
  15. Cryptocentrum misasii P.Ortiz & Carnevali - Colombia
  16. Cryptocentrum pergracile Schltr. - Colombia
  17. Cryptocentrum peruvianum (Cogn.) C.Schweinf.
    1. Cryptocentrum peruvianum subsp. dactylinum Carnevali - Ecuador
    2. Cryptocentrum peruvianum subsp. minus (Schltr.) Carnevali - Peru
    3. Cryptocentrum peruvianum subsp. peruvianum - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, possibly Venezuela
  18. Cryptocentrum pseudobulbosum C.Schweinf. - Ecuador, Peru,
  19. Cryptocentrum roseans (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes - Colombia
  20. Cryptocentrum silverstonei Carnevali - Colombia, Ecuador
  21. Cryptocentrum spathaceum Dodson - Colombia, Ecuador
  22. Cryptocentrum standleyi Ames - Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama

References

  1. ↑ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Vanishing Beauty, vol. 1, Franco Pupulin

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