Quekettia Lindl.
First published in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 25(Misc.): 3 (1839)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Trinidad to S. Tropical America. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Scolopendrogyne Szlach. & Mytnik in Richardiana 9: 205 (2009)
- Stictophyllorchis Dodson & Carnevali in Lindleyana 8: 101 (1993)
- Stictophyllum Dodson & M.W.Chase in Icon. Pl. Trop., ser. 2, 6: t. 584 (1989), nom. illeg.
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- 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.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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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