Bletia Ruiz & Pav.
Distribution
Native to:
Alabama, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is.
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Anthogyas Raf. in Fl. Tellur. 4: 44 (1838)
- Basiphyllaea Schltr. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 77 (1921)
- Bletiana Raf. in Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2: 268 (1818)
- Carteria Small in Torreya 10: 187 (1910), non Diesing 1866.
- Crybe Lindl. in Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 446 (1836)
- Gyas Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 299 (1812)
- Hexalectris Raf. in Neogenyton: 4 (1825)
- Regnellia Barb.Rodr. in Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 81 (1877)
- Thiebautia Colla in Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 3: 161 (1825)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- 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.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K000079776 | Yes | ||||
| K000079774 | Yes | ||||
| Chase, M.W.C. [82103], Mexico | 75575.000 | No | |||
| Chase, M.W.C. [82102], Mexico | 75819.000 | No | |||
| Chase, M.W. [83294] | 76373.000 | No | |||
| Chase, M.W.C. [83279], Mexico | 75807.000 | No | |||
| K000079775 | Yes | ||||
| K000079777 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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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
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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
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images