Prosthechea Knowles & Westc.
Distribution
Native to:
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, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Epithecia Knowles & Westc. in Fl. Cab. 2: 167 (1838), nom. illeg.
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Anacheilium Hoffmanns. in Linnaea 16(Litt.): 229 (1842)
- Epicladium Small in Fl. Miami: 56 (1913)
- Euchile (Dressler & G.E.Pollard) Withner in Cattleyas & Relatives 5: 137 (1998)
- Hormidium Lindl. ex Heynh. in Nom. Bot. Hort.: 880 (1841)
- Panarica Withner & P.A.Harding in Cattleyas & Relatives: Debatable Epidendrums: 207 (2004)
- Pollardia Withner & P.A.Harding in Cattleyas & Relatives: Debatable Epidendrums: 217 (2004)
- Pseudencyclia Chiron & V.P.Castro in Richardiana 4: 31 (2003)
Accepted Species
- Prosthechea abbreviata (Schltr.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea aemula (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea arminii (Rchb.f.) Withner & P.A.Harding
- Prosthechea baculus (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea brachychila (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea chacaoensis (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea chimborazoensis (Schltr.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea christyana (Rchb.f.) Garay & Withner
- Prosthechea cochleata (L.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea crassilabia (Poepp. & Endl.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez
- Prosthechea fragrans (Sw.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea gilbertoi (Garay) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea grammatoglossa (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea hartwegii (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea lambda (Linden & Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea lindenii (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea livida (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea macrothyrsodes (Rchb.f.) Christenson
- Prosthechea mejia (Withner & P.A.Harding) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea pamplonensis (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea pygmaea (Hook.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea sceptra (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea sima (Dressler) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea tigrina (Linden ex Lindl.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea venezuelana (Schltr.) W.E.Higgins
- Prosthechea villae-rosae P.Ortiz
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. (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:
Sources
-
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
-
Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images