Cischweinfia Explained

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.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

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

• List of Orchidaceae genera

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=41107 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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