Group: Monocot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, D, 50

Authors:

Hooker, William Jackson

Published In: Exotic Flora 3: t. 178. 1827. (Exot. Fl.)
Annotation: as "atro-purpurea"

Type-Protologue

Locality: Introduced by the late Baron de Schack to our gardens from Trinidad. Bulbs of it were received at the Liverpool Botanic Garden, where they flowered in the month of June of the present year (1825), and whence a magnificent spike of two feet in length, together with the bulb and leaves, were sent to me by Mr. H. Shepherd.

Distribution: Trinidad

Type Specimens

• HT: Schack, Eduard Freiherr von - s.n. - K - (BC:K000588929). Baron van Schack s.n.; ; Trinidad (K - (BC:K000588929))
• LT: Batemann 2; Guyana LT invalid, there is no mention of Batemann in protologue.

  • Lectotype designated by:  Szlachetko, D. L., Y. Veyret, J. Mytnik-Ejsmont, M. Sawicka, P. Rutkowski & P. Baranow. 2012. Orchids French Guiana 319. Ruggell: A.R.G. Ganter Verlag K.G., Königstein, Germany.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Asparagales Link
• family:  !!Orchidaceae Juss.
• genus:  Gongora Ruiz & Pav.

Conservation Status:

• CITES Appendix II - Trade controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival - Global
  • Reference UNEP WCMC. 2003. Checkl. CITES Sp. 1–339. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge.
  • Conservation System UNEP WCMC. 2003. Checkl. CITES Sp. 1–339. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge.

Other names for this basionym:

Gongora maculata var. atropurpurea (Hook.) Teusch.

Gongora quinquenervis var. atropurpurea (Hook.) H.G. Jones

Projects: Ecuador , Mesoamericana , Panama , Peru , VPA

Keywords: CEC, Dodson, FVG, PAN