Chysis bractescens

Chysis bractescens is a species of orchid. It is native to Oaxaca, Tabasco, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.[1][2][3]

Chysis bractescens
1841 illustration from
Edwards's Botanical Register
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Orchidaceae
Subfamily:
Epidendroideae
Genus:
Chysis
Species:
C. bractescens
Binomial name
Chysis bractescens
Lindl. (1840)
Synonyms[1]
  • Chysis aurea var. bractescens (Lindl.) P.H.Allen
  • Thorvaldsenia speciosa Liebm. (1844)
  • Chysis makoyi Heynh. (1846)

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Pérez J., L. A., M. Sousa Sánchez, A. M. Hanan-Alipi, F. Chiang Cabrera & P. Tenorio L. 2005. Vegetación terrestre. 65–110. In J. Bueno, F Álvarez & S. Santiago, Biodiversidad del Estado de Tabasco. CONABIO-UNAM, México.
  3. García-Mendoza, A. J. & J. Meave del Castillo. 2011. Diversidad Florística de Oaxaca: de Musgos a Angispermas 1–351. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria.
  • Lindley, J. (1840) Edwards's Botanical Register 26: misc. 61.
  • Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2006) Epidendroideae (Part One). Genera Orchidacearum 4: 173 ff. Oxford University Press.
  • Chiron, G. & Archila Morales, F. (2010) Conspectus neotropicus mesoamericanus. Le genre Chysis Lindley (Orchidaceae). Richardiana 10: 161–192.


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