Quekettia (plant)

Quekettia is a small genus of orchids classified in the subtribe Oncidiinae. This genus is found in the humid lowlands of Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela, Ecuador and Trinidad.[2][3][4][5]

Quekettia
Quekettia papillosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Cymbidieae
Subtribe: Oncidiinae
Genus: Quekettia
Lindl., 1839 [1]
Type species
Quekettia microscopica
Lindl. in W.T.Aiton (1839)
Synonyms[2]
  • Stictophyllum Dodson & M.W.Chase 1989, illegitimate homonym, not Edgew. 1845
  • Stictophyllorchis Dodson & Carnevali
  • Scolopendrogyne Szlach. & Mytnik.

The trade of these orchids is controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival [6]

The name commemorates the author and microscopist Edwin John Quekett.[7]

Species

Species accepted as of June 2014:[2]

  1. Quekettia microscopica Lindl. (French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, NE Brazil)
  2. Quekettia papillosa Garay (Suriname, Pará)
  3. Quekettia pygmaea (Cogn.) Garay & R.E.Schult. (Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Trinidad)
  4. Quekettia vermeuleniana Determann (Suriname)[8]
formerly included[2]

moved to: Capanemia

  1. Q. australis - Capanemia micromera
  2. Q. carinata - Capanemia carinata
  3. Q. duseniana - Capanemia theresae
  4. Q. longirostellata - Capanemia theresae
  5. Q. micromera - Capanemia micromera
  6. Q. theresae - Capanemia theresae

References
  1. Edwards's Botanical Register 25: Misc. 3. 1839
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. 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.
  4. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  5. Cogniaux, Célestin Alfred. 1910. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 6: 624, Ionopsis pygmaea, synonym of Quekettia pygmaea in Trinidad
  6. CITES Appendix II
  7. Boulger, George Simonds (1896). "Quekett, John Thomas" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  8. Determann RO. 1981 A new species of Quekettia (Orchidaceae) from Surinam. Selbyana 5. (3 - 4): 306 - 307 (1981)
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