- Family:
- Orchidaceae Juss.
Ornithocephalus Hook.

Native to:
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.
- Ornithocephalus alfredoi Archila & Chiron
- Ornithocephalus archilarum Chiron
- Ornithocephalus aristatus Pupulin & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus aurorae D.E.Benn. & Christenson
- Ornithocephalus bicornis Lindl.
- Ornithocephalus biloborostratus Salazar & R.González
- Ornithocephalus bonitensis (Dodson) Toscano
- Ornithocephalus brachyceras G.A.Romero & Carnevali
- Ornithocephalus brachystachyus Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus bryostachyus Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus cascajalensis Archila
- Ornithocephalus castelfrancoi Pupulin
- Ornithocephalus caveroi D.E.Benn. & Christenson
- Ornithocephalus ciliatus Lindl.
- Ornithocephalus cochleariformis C.Schweinf.
- Ornithocephalus cryptanthus (C.Schweinf. & P.H.Allen) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus cujeticola Barb.Rodr.
- Ornithocephalus dalstroemii (Dodson) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus dodsonii R.Vásquez & T.Krömer
- Ornithocephalus dolabratus Rchb.f.
- Ornithocephalus dressleri (Toscano) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus dunstervillei Toscano & Carnevali
- Ornithocephalus ecuadorensis (Garay) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus escobarianus (Garay) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus estradae Dodson
- Ornithocephalus falcatus Focke
- Ornithocephalus garayi (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus gladiatus Hook.
- Ornithocephalus grex-anserinus Dressler & Mora-Ret.
- Ornithocephalus hoppii (Schltr.) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus inflexus Lindl.
- Ornithocephalus iridifolius Rchb.f.
- Ornithocephalus kalbreyerianus Kraenzl.
- Ornithocephalus lankesteri Ames
- Ornithocephalus lehmannii Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus leslie-garayi Szlach. & Kolan.
- Ornithocephalus longilabris Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus manabina Dodson
- Ornithocephalus micranthus Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus minimiflorus Senghas
- Ornithocephalus montealegreae Pupulin
- Ornithocephalus myrticola Lindl.
- Ornithocephalus numenius Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus obergiae Soto Arenas
- Ornithocephalus oberonioides (Schltr.) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus patentilobus C.Schweinf.
- Ornithocephalus polyodon Rchb.f.
- Ornithocephalus powellii Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus suarezii Dodson
- Ornithocephalus torresii Salazar & Soto Arenas
- Ornithocephalus tripterus Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus tsubotae (P.Ortiz) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus urceilabris (P.Ortiz & R.Escobar) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus valerioi Ames & C.Schweinf.
- Ornithocephalus vasquezii Dodson
- Ornithocephalus zamoranus Dodson
Ornithocephalus Hook. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 23, 2005 | 74295.000 | No | |||
Plowman, T. [7579], Peru | 61885.000 | No | |||
72408.000 | No | ||||
Chase, M.W.C. [82200] | 75123.000 | No | |||
Chase, M.W.C. [85002], Costa Rica | 74798.000 | No | |||
Chase, M.W.C. [87285 A], Peru | 75646.000 | No | |||
Burchell [6381], Brazil | K000886478 | Yes | |||
Chase, M.W. [87285] | 76331.000 | No | |||
Taylor, P. [13238], Panama | Sphyrastylis | 41629.000 | No | ||
Ecuador | Sphyrastylis | 59426.000 | No |
First published in Exot. Fl. 2: t. 127 (1824)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- 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.
-
Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
-
Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
-
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
-
Kew Science Photographs
Copyright applied to individual images