Ascocentrum
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The division of living beings into systematics is a continuous subject of research. Different systematic classifications exist side by side and one after the other. The taxon treated here has become obsolete due to new research or is not part of the group systematics presented in the German-language Wikipedia.
Ascocentrum is a genus from the family of the orchid (Orchidaceae). The genus name is currently a synonym for the genus Vanda , with which Ascocentrum was merged.
Systematics and botanical history
The genus Ascocentrum is counted to the subtribe Aeridinae. Crosses with numerous related genera such as Arachnis , Phalaenopsis , Renanthera and Vanda were realized.
Some species of the Ascocentrum genus were known as early as the 19th century and were described as saccolabium . In the years from 1913 to 1921 Rudolf Schlechter and Johannes Jacobus Smith named a total of seven species in the Ascocentrum genus . Other species were described mainly by Seidenfaden and Christenson from 1970 onwards. As a result of DNA studies, the genus has now been revised and integrated into the Vanda genus .
See also
supporting documents
Most of the information in this article comes from:
- Jim B. Comber: Orchids of Java . Bentham-Moxon Trust, Kew 1990, ISBN 0-947643-21-4 , pp. 325-326 .
- Chen Xinqi, Zhu Guanghua, Ji Zhanhe, Lang Kaiyong, Luo Yibo, Phillip Cribb: Orchidaceae (draft) . In: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis 1994.
In addition, the following are cited:
- ^ World Checklist of Selected Plant Families . In: The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew .
