Vitekorchis Explained

Vitekorchis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae.^[1]

It is native to Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela in western South America.

Known species

As accepted by Kew:

• Vitekorchis aurifera (Rchb.f.) J.M.H.Shaw
• Vitekorchis excavata (Lindl.) Romowicz & Szlach.
• Vitekorchis lucasiana (Rolfe) Romowicz & Szlach.
• Vitekorchis vasquezii (Christenson) Romowicz & Szlach.

The genus name of Vitekorchis is in honour of Ernst Vitek (b. 1953), an Austrian botanist at the museum of natural history in Vienna.^[2] It was first described and published in Polish Bot. J. Vol.51 on page 45 in 2006.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vitekorchis Romowicz & Szlach. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 12 March 2021 . en.
2. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 1 January 2021.