Ornithocephalus Hook.
Distribution
Native to:
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Oakes-amesia C.Schweinf. & P.H.Allen in Bot. Mus. Leafl. 13: 133 (1948)
- Sphyrastylis Schltr. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 194 (1920)
Accepted Species
- Ornithocephalus bicornis Lindl.
- Ornithocephalus ciliatus Lindl.
- Ornithocephalus cochleariformis C.Schweinf.
- Ornithocephalus dolabratus Rchb.f.
- Ornithocephalus ecuadorensis (Garay) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus escobarianus (Garay) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus gladiatus Hook.
- Ornithocephalus hoppii (Schltr.) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus kalbreyerianus Kraenzl.
- Ornithocephalus lehmannii Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus leslie-garayi Szlach. & Kolan.
- Ornithocephalus micranthus Schltr.
- Ornithocephalus minimiflorus Senghas
- Ornithocephalus oberonioides (Schltr.) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus polyodon Rchb.f.
- Ornithocephalus tsubotae (P.Ortiz) Toscano & Dressler
- Ornithocephalus urceilabris (P.Ortiz & R.Escobar) Toscano & Dressler
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.
- 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.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 2005 | 74295.000 | No | |||
| Plowman, T. [7579], Peru | 61885.000 | No | |||
| 72408.000 | No | ||||
| Chase, M.W.C. [82200] | 75123.000 | No | |||
| Chase, M.W.C. [85002], Costa Rica | 74798.000 | No | |||
| Chase, M.W.C. [87285 A], Peru | 75646.000 | No | |||
| Burchell [6381], Brazil | K000886478 | Yes | |||
| Chase, M.W. [87285] | 76331.000 | No | |||
| Taylor, P. [13238], Panama | Sphyrastylis | 41629.000 | No | ||
| Ecuador | Sphyrastylis | 59426.000 | No |
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