Cochleanthes flabelliformis

Cochleanthes flabelliformis
	Cochleanthes flabelliformis
Systematics
Empire :	plants
Order :	Asparagales
Family :	Orchidaceae
Subfamily :	Epidendroideae
Genre :	Cochleanthes
Type :	Cochleanthes flabelliformis
Scientific name
	Cochleanthes flabelliformis
	( Sw. ) RESchult. & Garay

Cochleanthes flabelliformis is a kind from the family of orchids (Orchidaceae).

description

Vegetative characteristics

Cochleanthes flabelliformis is a perennial herbaceous plant . It grows epiphytically or lithophytically in the shade with high humidity. Basally overlapping, linear-lanceolate and green leaves are formed.

Generative characteristics

The flower stalk is up to 10 centimeters long and has a single, short-lived and waxy flower.

distribution

Cochleanthes flabelliformis is distributed in Jamaica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil in undisturbed mountain forests at altitudes of 250 to 1200 meters.

Systematics

It was first published in 1788 under the name ( Basionym ) Epidendrum flabelliforme by Olof Peter Swartz . In 1959 it was recombined to Cochleanthes flabelliformis (Sw.) RESchult. & Garay by Richard Evans Schultes and Leslie Andrew Garay . Other synonyms for Cochleanthes flabelliformis (Sw.) RESchult. & Garay are: Chondrorhyncha flabelliformis (Sw.) Alain , Cochleanthes fragrans Raf. , Cymbidium flabelliforme (Sw.) Sw. , Epidendrum flabelliforme Sw. , Huntleya imbricata Rchb. f. , Warczewiczella cochlearis (Lindl.) Rchb. f. , Warczewiczella cochleata Barb . Rodr . , Warczewiczella flabelliformis (Sw.) Cogn. , Warczewiczella gibeziae (NEBr.) Stein , Zygopetalum cochleare Lindl. , Zygopetalum conchaceum Hoffmanns. ex Rchb. f. , Zygopetalum flabelliforme (Sw.) Rchb. f. , Zygopetalum gibeziae NEBr. , Zygopetalum cochleatum Paxton

Cochleanthes flabelliformis is the type species of the genus Cochleanthes .

Individual evidence

↑ Olof Peter Swartz: In: Nova genera & species plantarum; seu, Prodromus descriptionum vegetabilium, maximam partem incognitorum quae sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783-87 digessit Olof Swartz, MD Holmiae [etc.] In Bibliopoliis Acad. M. Swederi, 1788, p. 124. scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .
^ Richard Evans Schultes, Leslie Andrew Garay: On the validity of the generic name Cochleanthes Raf. In: Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. Volume 18, 1959, p. 324. scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .

Web links

Commons : Cochleanthes flabelliformis - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Brief description at orchidspecies.com . (engl.)

[1] Olof Peter Swartz: In: Nova genera & species plantarum; seu, Prodromus descriptionum vegetabilium, maximam partem incognitorum quae sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783-87 digessit Olof Swartz, MD Holmiae [etc.] In Bibliopoliis Acad. M. Swederi, 1788, p. 124. scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .

[Schultes-Garay1959-2] Richard Evans Schultes, Leslie Andrew Garay: On the validity of the generic name Cochleanthes Raf. In: Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. Volume 18, 1959, p. 324. scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .