Cischweinfia

Cischweinfia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It was named after Harvard orchidologist Charles Schweinfurth. It has eleven currently recognized species, all native to Central America and northwestern South America.[2][3][4][5][6]

Cischweinfia
Cischweinfia pusilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Cymbidieae
Subtribe: Oncidiinae
Genus: Cischweinfia
Dressler & N.H.Williams, 1970[1]
Type species
Aspasia pusilla
C.Schweinf.

Species
  • Cischweinfia colombiana Garay - Colombia
  • Cischweinfia dasyandra (Rchb.f.) Dressler & N.H.Williams - Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica
  • Cischweinfia donrafae Dressler & Dalström - Costa Rica
  • Cischweinfia jarae Dodson & D.E.Benn.- Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
  • Cischweinfia nana Dressler - Panama
  • Cischweinfia parva (C.Schweinf.) Dressler & N.H.Williams - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia
  • Cischweinfia platychila Garay - Colombia
  • Cischweinfia popowiana Königer - Ecuador
  • Cischweinfia pusilla (C.Schweinf.) Dressler & N.H.Williams - Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica
  • Cischweinfia pygmaea (Pupulin, J.Valle & G.Merino) M.W.Chase - Ecuador
  • Cischweinfia rostrata Dressler & N.H.Williams - Colombia, Ecuador

See also

References
  1. Dressler, Robert Louis; Williams, Norris H. (1970). "An overlooked genus in the Oncidiinae". American Orchid Society Bulletin. 39 (11): 988–994, page 991.
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. 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.
  5. Dressler, R.L. 2003. Orchidaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 3. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 1–595.
  6. Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín


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