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

Authors:

Luer, Carlyle (Carl) August
Hirtz, Alexander Charles

Published In: Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 57: 136–137, pl. 63. 1995. (Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Ecuador: Pastaza: creeping in humus in cloud forest along Río Zuñag, alt. 1900 m, 23 Feb 1990

Collector and Number: A. Hirtz, S. Dalström, L. Amby, J. del Hierro, E. Astorga, S. Ortega & J. Cabezas 4638

Distribution: Endemic to Ecuador

Institution(s): HT: MO

Type Specimens

• HT: Alexander Hirtz - 4638 - MO - (BC:MO-149116/A:5123081). (MO - (BC:MO-149116/A:5123081))
• HT: Hirtz et al. 4638; 23 Feb 1990; Ecuador: Pastaza: 1900 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:  Brachionidium Lindl.

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.
• 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.

Projects: Ecuador , VPA

Keywords: Dodson, CEC