Pescatoria Explained

Pescatoria is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to Costa Rica, Panama, and northern South America.^[1]

Species

The following species and nothospecies are accepted as of May 2014:^[1]

Pescatoria backhousiana Rchb.f. - Ecuador
Pescatoria × bella Rchb.f. - Colombia (P. coelestis × P. klabochorum)
Pescatoria cerina (Lindl. & Paxton) Rchb.f. - Costa Rica, Panama
Pescatoria cochlearis Rolfe - Ecuador
Pescatoria coelestis (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Colombia
Pescatoria coronaria Rchb.f. - Colombia
Pescatoria dayana Rchb.f. - Colombia, Ecuador
Pescatoria dormaniana Rchb.f. - Colombia
Pescatoria ecuadorana (Dodson) Dressler - Ecuador
Pescatoria fimbriata Regel - Colombia
Pescatoria × gairiana Rchb.f. - Ecuador (P. klabochorum × P. lawrenceana)
Pescatoria hemixantha (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Roraima, Guyana, Venezuela, possibly Suriname
Pescatoria hirtzii (Waldv.) Dressler - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Pescatoria klabochorum Rchb.f. - Ecuador
Pescatoria lalindei (Rchb.f.) Dressler ex P.A.Harding - Colombia
Pescatoria lamellosa Rchb.f. - Colombia
Pescatoria lawrenceana (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Colombia, Ecuador
Pescatoria lehmannii Rchb.f. - Ecuador
Pescatoria × pallens (Rchb.f.) P.A.Harding - Colombia
Pescatoria pulvinaris (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Colombia
Pescatoria russeliana Rchb.f. - Colombia
Pescatoria schroederiana (Sander) Rolfe - Colombia
Pescatoria triumphans Rchb.f. & Warsz. - Colombia
Pescatoria violacea (Lindl.) Dressler - Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, northern Brazil
Pescatoria wallisii Linden & Rchb.f. - Ecuador
Pescatoria whitei (Rolfe) Dressler - Colombia

(2009) Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 521 ff. Oxford University Press.
2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart