Oeceoclades alismatophylla

Oeceoclades alismatophylla is a species of orchid in the genus Oeceoclades that is native to Comoros and northeastern Madagascar.[1] It was first described by the German botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1885 as Eulophia alismatophylla and later transferred to the genus Eulophidium in 1957 by V.S. Summerhayes. When Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Taylor revised the genus Oeceoclades in 1976, they transferred this species to the expanded Oeceoclades as O. alismatophylla. Garay and Taylor noted that this species is broadly similar in vegetative morphology to O. analamerensis, O. lonchophylla, and O. petiolata but could be distinguished from them in floral morphology, with O. alismatophylla having lateral labellum lobes that are larger than the middle one.[1][2]

Oeceoclades alismatophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Oeceoclades
Species:
O. alismatophylla
Binomial name
Oeceoclades alismatophylla
Synonyms[1]
  • Eulophia alismatophylla Rchb.f.
  • Eulophidium alismatophyllum (Rchb.f.) Summerh.

References
  1. WCSP 2015. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015-4-9
  2. Garay, L.A., and P. Taylor. 1976. The genus Oeceoclades Lindl. Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University 24(9): 249-274.


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