Ceratocentron

Ceratocentron
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Vandeae
Subtribe: Aeridinae
Genus: Ceratocentron
Senghas
Species: C. fesselii
Binomial name
Ceratocentron fesselii
Senghas
Synonyms[1]

Tuberolabium calcaratum T.Hashim.[2]

Ceratocentron is a genus of plant in family Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Ceratocentron fesselii, found at high altitudes from Nueva Viscaya to the Cordillera Mountain ranges on Luzon island in the Philippines. The species is rare in the wild, and remained unknown to science until 1989.[1][3] It is now listed as "critically endangered."[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Hashimoto, Tamotsu. 1991. Annals of the Tsukuba Botanical Garden 10: 33
  3. Senghas, Karlheinz. 1989. Die Orchideen Hamburg 40: 90
  4. IUCN Red Book of Threatened Species

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