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

Authors:

Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund

In Authors:

Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von
Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (né Goujaud)
Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund

Published In: Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 358. 1815[1816]. (Aug 1816) (Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.))
Annotation: = Pleurothallis elegans

Type-Protologue

Distribution: Colombia

Type Specimens

• HT: A. Humboldt & A. Bonpland 2129; 1801; Colombia: Cauca: on wooded mountain slopes between La Erre and Almaguer, alt. ca. 6000 ft ("1000 hex")

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:  !!Dendrobium 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:

Crocodeilanthe elegans (Kunth) Luer

**Humboldtia elegans (Kunth) Kuntze

Humboltia elegans (Kunth) Kuntze

Pleurothallis elegans (Kunth) Lindl.

Specklinia elegans (Kunth) Lindl.

*Stelis elegans (Kunth) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase

Keywords: Dodson