Cycnoches

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Cycnoches
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Cycnoches haagii
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Cymbidieae
Subtribe: Catasetinae
Genus: Cycnoches
Lindl.
Type species
Cycnoches loddigesii
Lindl.

Cycnoches, abbreviated as Cyc. in the horticultural trade,[1] is a genus of 34 currently accepted species of orchids native to South America, Central America and southern Mexico.[2] Also called "swan orchids", they are epiphytes found in lowland and pre-montane forests.[3]

List of species[]

Species accepted as of May 2014:[2]

  1. Lindl. & Paxton (1852) - Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
  2. G.F.Carr & Christenson (1999) - Colombia
  3. Dodson (1989) - Peru
  4. Schltr. (1924) - Colombia
  5. Christenson (1999) - Peru
  6. Klotzsch (1838) - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana
  7. D.E.Benn. (1998) - Peru
  8. Rolfe (1913) - Peru, Brazil
  9. Rolfe (1909) - Colombia
  10. Rchb.f. (1852) - Panama
  11. Cycnoches egertonianum Bateman (1842) - southern Mexico, Central America
  12. D.E.Benn. & Christenson (2001) - Peru
  13. Rolfe (1892) - southern Mexico, Central America
  14. Schltr. (1922) - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama
  15. Cycnoches haagii Barb.Rodr. (1881) - from Colombia to French Guiana, south to Bolivia and Brazil
  16. Jenny & G.A.Romero (1991) - Colombia, Ecuador
  17. Dodson & D.E.Benn. (1989) - Peru
  18. Rchb.f. (1878) - Ecuador, Peru
  19. Cycnoches loddigesii Lindl. (1832) - from Colombia to French Guiana, south to Brazil
  20. G.A.Romero & Garay (1999) - Venezuela
  21. Lindl. (1840) - Colombia, Venezuela
  22. P.Castro & Campacci (1993) - Brazil
  23. Schltr. (1922) - Nicaragua, Panama
  24. Cycnoches pentadactylon Lindl. (1843) - Peru, Brazil
  25. Rolfe (1891) - Ecuador, Peru
  26. Schltr. (1922) - Panama
  27. D.E.Benn. (1992) - Peru
  28. Rolfe (1891) - Costa Rica
  29. Christenson & G.F.Carr (2001) - Peru
  30. Schltr. (1922) - Panama
  31. Dodson (1989) - Ecuador
  32. Dodson (1989) - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
  33. Cycnoches ventricosum Bateman (1838) - Mexico, Central America
  34. Rchb.f. (1852) - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.rhs.org.uk/RHSWebsite/files/87/87be8b1e-908e-4e04-9ee6-30c438354458.pdf[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Pérez-Escobar, Oscar Alejandro; Gottschling, Marc; Chomicki, Guillaume; Condamine, Fabien L.; Klitgård, Bente B.; Pansarin, Emerson; Gerlach, Günter (2017). "Andean Mountain Building Did not Preclude Dispersal of Lowland Epiphytic Orchids in the Neotropics". Scientific Reports. 7 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04261-z. ISSN 2045-2322.
  • Lindley, J. (1832) The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants 154.
  • Pridgeon, A.M. , Cribb, P., Chase, M.W., and Rasmussen, F.N. (Eds) (2009) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 5: Epidendroideae (Part 2): Epidendroideae, 21 ff. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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