Orchidaceae

Lepanthes Sw.

First published in Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 2, 6: 85 (1799)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Mexico to Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Accepted Species

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.
  • Luer, C.A. (2009). Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXX. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 115: 1-265. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2006). Epidendroideae (Part One). Genera Orchidacearum 4: 1-672. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
21345.000 No
Venezuela 21346.000 No
21347.000 No
Fiske, M.D., Ecuador 36141.000 No
Taylor, P. [16304], Ecuador 41519.000 No
Taylor, P. [16317], Ecuador 41526.000 No
Taylor, P. [16273], Ecuador 41571.000 No
Young, E. [43], Puerto Rico 46250.000 No
533.000 No
Stannard, B. [H51155], Brazil 58894.000 No
Hajek, F. [54], Peru 60183.000 No
Ecuador 61769.000 No
Ecuador 61845.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [84309], Costa Rica 75161.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [84726], Venezuela 74715.000 No
Chase, M.W. [83303], Mexico 76377.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [85043], Costa Rica 75537.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [84492], Costa Rica 75697.000 No
Chase, M.W. [84721] 77198.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [84491], Costa Rica 75670.000 No
Chase, M.W. [83305], Mexico 76375.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [84120], Costa Rica 75477.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [84538], Costa Rica 75801.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [84411], Costa Rica 75454.000 No
Chase, M.W. [84023] 77202.000 No
Chase, M.W.C. [84307], Costa Rica 75159.000 No
Chase, M.W. [83304], Mexico 76380.000 No

Sources

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • 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

  • 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