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

Authors:

Hooker, William Jackson

Published In: Botanical Magazine 66: pl. 3791. 1840. (Bot. Mag.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: [Mexico:] 'A very fine new Epidendrum, native of Mexico, whence it was sent by Mr. Parkinson to the Woburn collection, where it blossomed in great perfection in September, 1839'

Collector and Number: Parkinson s.n.

Distribution: Mexico

Institution(s): not indicated

Note: 'The country of origin of this cultivated plant was certainly mislabeled, as this species occurs only in South America, and mainly in Brazil' (Hágsater 2013)

Type Specimens

• LT: Parkinson - s.n. - K - (BC:K-000583839). (K - (BC:K-000583839))

  • Annotation: K-Lindl. ex herb. Hook.
  • Lectotype designated by:  Szlachetko, D. L., Y. Veyret, J. Mytnik-Ejsmont, M. Sawicka, P. Rutkowski & P. Baranow. 2012. Orchids French Guiana 140. 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:  !!Epidendrum L.

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:

Epidendrum polyanthum var. densiflorum (Hook.) Lindl.

Projects: Antioquia , Bolivia , Ecuador , Peru , VPA

Keywords: BOL, CEC, Dodson, ORCH, VPA, BCA