Rhomboda

Rhomboda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Cranichideae
Subtribe: Goodyerinae
Genus: Rhomboda
Lindl.

Rhomboda is a genus of orchids, usually terrestrial but a few species epiphytic. They are native to Southeast Asia, China, Japan, the Himalayas, New Guinea, Queensland and certain islands of the western Pacific.[1][2][3]

Species accepted as of June 2014:[1]

  1. Rhomboda abbreviata (Lindl.) Ormerod - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Assam, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand
  2. Rhomboda alticola (Schltr.) Ormerod - New Guinea
  3. Rhomboda arunachalensis A.N.Rao - Arunachal Pradesh
  4. Rhomboda atrorubens (Schltr.) Ormerod - New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago
  5. Rhomboda bantaengensis (J.J.Sm.) Ormerod - Sulawesi
  6. Rhomboda blackii (Ames) Ormerod - Mindanao
  7. Rhomboda cristata (Blume) Ormerod - Java, Philippines
  8. Rhomboda dennisii Ormerod - Vanuatu, Solomon Islands
  9. Rhomboda elbertii Ormerod - Sulawesi
  10. Rhomboda fanjingensis Ormerod - Guizhou
  11. Rhomboda kerintjiensis (J.J.Sm.) Ormerod - Sumatra
  12. Rhomboda lanceolata (Lindl.) Ormerod - Darjiling, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, New Guinea, Kyushu
  13. Rhomboda longifolia Lindl. - Sikkim
  14. Rhomboda minahassae (Schltr.) Ormerod - Sulawesi
  15. Rhomboda moulmeinensis (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Ormerod - Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand
  16. Rhomboda pauciflora (Ridl.) Ormerod - Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah
  17. Rhomboda petelottii (Gagnep.) Ormerod - Vietnam
  18. Rhomboda polygonoides (F.Muell.) Ormerod - Queensland, New Guinea, Maluku, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Caledonia
  19. Rhomboda tokioi (Fukuy.) Ormerod - Guangdong, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Vietnam
  20. Rhomboda velutina (J.J.Sm.) Ormerod - Java, Lesser Sunda Islands
  21. Rhomboda wardii Ormerod - Myanmar
  22. Rhomboda yakusimensis (Masam.) Ormerod - Ryukyu Islands, Izu Islands, Kyushu

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3: 1-358. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  2. Flora of China v 25 p 67, 菱兰属 ling lan shu, Rhomboda Lindley, J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 1: 181. 1857.
  3. Lindley, John. 1857. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 1: 181