Guarianthe

Guarianthe
Guarianthe skinneri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Genus: Guarianthe
Dressler & W.E. Higgins (2003)
Type species
Guarianthe skinneri

Guarianthe, abbreviated Gur. in the horticultural trade, is a small genus of epiphytic orchids, growing in wet forests in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. It was separated from the bifoliate Cattleyas in 2003, based on phylogenetic studies of nuclear DNA sequence data.

Species

ImageNameDistributionElevation (m)
Guarianthe aurantiaca (Bateman) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003Widespread across much of Mexico, south to Costa Rica300 – 1600 meters
Guarianthe bowringiana (Veitch) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras210 – 900 meters
Guarianthe patinii (Cogn.) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad; naturalized in Ecuador30 – 800 meters
Guarianthe skinneri (Bateman) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003from Chiapas, Mexico south to Panama200 – 2300 meters

Natural hybrid

References

  1. ↑ http://www.rhs.org.uk/RHSWebsite/files/87/87be8b1e-908e-4e04-9ee6-30c438354458.pdf[permanent dead link]
  2. ↑ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2018-02-28.[permanent dead link]
  3. ↑ Dressler and Higgins: "Guarianthe, a Generic Name for the “Cattleya” skinneri Complex" Lankesteriana 7(2003)37—38 Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ van den Berg et al.: "A Phylogenetic Analysis of Laeliinae (Orchidaceae) based on Sequence Data from Internal Transcribed Spacers (ITS)of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA", Lindleyana 15(2)96—114. 2000. Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "The International Orchid Register / RHS Gardening". apps.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-28.