Guarianthe skinneri (Bateman) Dressler & W.E.Higgins
First published in Lankesteriana 7: 38 (2003)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Mexico to Central America. It is a pseudobulbous epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Cattleya skinneri Bateman in Orchid. Mexico Guatemala: t. 13 (1839)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Cattleya skinneri var. alba Rchb.f. in Gard. Chron., n.s., 7: 810 (1877)
- Cattleya skinneri f. alba (Rchb.f.) Schltr. in Orchideen Beschreib. Kult. Zücht.: 227 (1914)
- Epidendrum huegelianum Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 31 (1861)
- Guarianthe skinneri f. alba (Rchb.f.) Christenson in Richardiana 11: 77 (2011)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- Pérez-Farrera, M.Á., Martínez-Camilo, R., Martínez-Meléndez, N., Farrera-Sarmiento, O. & Maza-Villalobos, S. (2012). Listado florístico del Cerro Quetzal (Polígono III) de la reserva de la biosfera El Triunfo, Chiapas, México. Botanical Sciences 90: 113-142.
An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:
- Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Cattleya skinneri.]
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holford, G. [s.n.] | K000079729 | Yes | |||
| Skinner [s.n.], Guatemala | K000079730 | holotype | Yes | ||
| Bateman [s.n.], Mexico | K000079731 | Yes | |||
| United Kingdom | Cattleya skinneri | 19290.000 | No | ||
| Cattleya skinneri | 19309.000 | No | |||
| United Kingdom | Cattleya skinneri | 22298.000 | No | ||
| Hunt, D.R. [50], Belize | Cattleya skinneri | 26270.000 | No | ||
| Adams, B.R. [248], Belize | Cattleya skinneri | 43891.000 | No | ||
| Skinner [s.n.], Guatemala | Cattleya skinneri | K000078758 | Unknown type material | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images