Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Genus:
Cleistes Rich. ex Lindl.

Cleistes montana Gardner

This species is accepted, and its native range is Venezuela (Bolívar) to Guyana, SE. & S. Brazil.

Native to:

Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Guyana, Venezuela

Cleistes montana Gardner appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Gardner [5879], Brazil K000463769 Yes
Gardner, G. [662], Brazil K000940227 Yes
Irwin, H.S. [20641], Brazil Cleistes lepida K000940232 Yes

First published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. 5: t. 473 (1842)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • (2021). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.496.2.7 epublication.
  • Szlachetko, D.L. (ed.) (2016). Orchids of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana) 1: 1-461. Koeltz Botanical Books.

  • 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