Quekettia (plant)

Quekettia is a small genus of orchids classified in the Oncidiinae subtribe. This genus is found in the humid lowlands of Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela, Ecuador and Trinidad.[2][3][4][5]

Quekettia
Quekettia papillosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Cymbidieae
Subtribe: Oncidiinae
Genus: Quekettia
Lindl., 1839 [1]
Type species
Quekettia microscopica
Lindl. in W.T.Aiton (1839)
Synonyms[2]
  • Stictophyllum Dodson & M.W.Chase 1989, illegitimate homonym, not Edgew. 1845
  • Stictophyllorchis Dodson & Carnevali
  • Scolopendrogyne Szlach. & Mytnik.

The trade of these orchids is controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival [6]

The name commemorates the author and microscopist Edwin John Quekett.[7]

Species

Species accepted as of June 2014:[2]

  1. Quekettia microscopica Lindl. (French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, NE Brazil)
  2. Quekettia papillosa Garay (Suriname, Pará)
  3. Quekettia pygmaea (Cogn.) Garay & R.E.Schult. (Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Trinidad)
  4. Quekettia vermeuleniana Determann (Suriname)[8]
formerly included[2]

moved to: Capanemia

  1. Q. australis - Capanemia micromera
  2. Q. carinata - Capanemia carinata
  3. Q. duseniana - Capanemia theresae
  4. Q. longirostellata - Capanemia theresae
  5. Q. micromera - Capanemia micromera
  6. Q. theresae - Capanemia theresae
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References
  1. Edwards's Botanical Register 25: Misc. 3. 1839
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2009). Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 1-585. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  4. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010.%5B%5D Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  5. Cogniaux, Célestin Alfred. 1910. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 6: 624, Ionopsis pygmaea, synonym of Quekettia pygmaea in Trinidad
  6. CITES Appendix II
  7. Boulger, George Simonds (1896). "Quekett, John Thomas" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  8. Determann RO. 1981 A new species of Quekettia (Orchidaceae) from Surinam. Selbyana 5. (3 - 4): 306 - 307 (1981)
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