Cyrtochiloides

Cyrtochiloides
Cyrtochiloides ochmatochila
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Maxillarieae
Subtribe: Oncidiinae
Genus: Cyrtochiloides
Williams & Chase, 2001
Species

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Cyrtochiloides, a genus of orchids created in 2001 by Norris H. Williams and Mark W. Chase, is designed to provide a small group of Neotropical epiphytes, previously included under a broad concept of Oncidium Sw., with a new, more accurate identity based on DNA.

Cyrtochiloides is akin to the mainly South American Cyrtochilum Kunth, a genus described in 1815. After having found its species scattered in Oncidium and several other genera, recently Cyrtochilum received notable acceptance by botanists, primarily based on the molecular discoveries made by Williams and Chase, as well as morphological analyses carried out by Stig Dalström.

DNA samples illustrate that Oncidium ochmatochilum Rchb.f. and several other species have only a diluted concection with the core of the Oncidium species. This new genus forms part of a well-supported clade including Otoglossum (Schltr.) Garay & Dunsterville, Cyrtochilum, the Andean group of Caucaea Schltr. (also previously retained under Oncidium as the section Cucullata), and Miltoniopsis God.-Leb.

Species

This genus has not been accepted yet by The International Orchid Register of the Royal Horticultural Society (horticultural abbreviation : Crt).

This genus is accepted according to database World Checklist of Monocotyledons of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[1]

References

  1. ↑ http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=239116&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=239116&status=true
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