Brachystele guayanensis

Brachystele guayanensis is a species of orchid. It is native to southern Mexico, Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras), Trinidad & Tobago, and northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Bolivia, northern Brazil).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Brachystele guayanensis
1894 illustration
Flora Brasiliensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Cranichideae
Subtribe: Spiranthinae
Genus: Brachystele
Species:
B. guayanensis
Binomial name
Brachystele guayanensis
Synonyms[1]
  • Brachystele guyanensis Schltr., spelling error
  • Goodyera guayanensis Lindl.
  • Spiranthes guayanensis (Lindl.) Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius
  • Spiranthes aguacatensis Rchb.f.
  • Spiranthes hostmannii Rchb.f. ex Griseb.
  • Gyrostachys aguacatensis Kuntze
  • Gyrostachys hostmannii (Rchb.f. ex Griseb.) Kuntze
  • Spiranthes brenesii Schltr.
  • Brachystele aguacatensis (Rchb.f.) Schltr.
  • Brachystele brenesii (Schltr.) Schltr.

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1920. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt. Zweite Abteilung, Systematik, Pflanzengeographie, angewandte Botanik 37(2, Heft 3): 373–374.
  3. CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
  4. Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá.
  5. Dressler, R.L. 2003. Orchidaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 3. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 1–595.
  6. Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  7. Hamer, F. 1988. Orchids of Central America. Selbyana 10(Suppl.): 1–430.

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