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

Authors:

Schweinfurth, Charles

Published In: American Orchid Society Bulletin 17: 494, f. 1. 1948. (Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Ecuador: Imbabura Province, in boggy ciénagas 1 to 4 miles south of Las Toldadas, east of Cayambe Peak, at 10,300 feet alt. epiphytic on tree fern, July 29, 1944

Collector and Number: Ira L. Wiggins 10510

Distribution: Ecuador

Institution(s): HT: AMES; IT: CAS

Type Specimens

• HT: Wiggins 10510; 29 Jul 1944; Ecuador: Imbabura: 4300 m @CEC@

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:  Pleurothallis R. Br.

Conservation Status:

• VU D2 - Vulnerable - Global
  • Reference Valencia Reyes, R., N. C. A. Pitman, S. León-Yánez & P. M. Jørgensen. 2000. Libro Rojo Pl. Endémic. Ecuador 2000 i–v, 1–489. Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
  • Conservation System IUCN. 2001. IUCN Red List Categ. Crit. v. 3.1 ii, 1–30. IUCN, Gland.
• 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.
• VU D2 - Vulnerable - Global
  • Reference León Yánez, S., R. Valencia Reyes, N. C. A. Pitman, L. Endara, C. Ulloa Ulloa & H. Navarrete. 2011. Libro Rojo Pl. Endémic. Ecuador, 2 ed. 1–957. Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
  • Conservation System IUCN. 2001. IUCN Red List Categ. Crit. v. 3.1 ii, 1–30. IUCN, Gland.

Other names for this basionym:

Acronia wigginsii (C. Schweinf.) Luer

Projects: Ecuador , VPA

Keywords: CEC, Dodson, ORCH