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

Authors:

Schlechtendal, Diederich Franz Leonhard von
Chamisso, Ludolf Karl Adelbert von

Published In: Linnaea 6(1): 59. 1831. (Mar 1831) (Linnaea)
Annotation: based on a spelling of "Maianthemum" that was often used in the 1800's; the name is not based on the word 'maior' (=major), but on 'maius' (May) and 'anthemum' (month). Therefore the 'i' is not a semivowel and not to be changed to 'j', see Art. 60.6 (Shezhen Code).

Type-Protologue

Locality: Mexico

Collector and Number: Schiede & Deppe 1037

Distribution: Mexico

Note: Holotype at B destroyed

Type Specimens

• IT: C.J.W. Schiede - 1037 - BM. (BM)
• HT: C.J.W. Schiede - 1037 - B. (B)

  • Annotation: destroyed
• IT: Schiede & Deppe 1037; ; Mexico

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:  !Malaxis Sol. ex Sw.

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:

Achroanthes maianthemifolia (Schltdl. & Cham.) Greene

!Microstylis maianthemifolia (Schltdl. & Cham.) Rchb. f.

**Microstylis majanthemifolia (Schltdl. & Cham.) Rchb. f.

Projects: Costa Rica , Mesoamericana , Nicaragua , Panama , VPA

Keywords: PAN, BCA