Hederorkis
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Hederorkis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains two known species, both native to islands in the Indian Ocean (Seychelles and Mauritius).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=96850 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
Description
As opposed to Polystachya (the largest genus in the subtribe), Hederorkis lacks pseudobulbs. The inflorescence is lateral.Genera Orchidacearum Volume 6: Epidendroideae (Part 3), Alec M. Pridgeon et al., Oxford Univ. Press, 2004, p. 451.
Species
- Hederorkis scandederis Thouars (1822) - Mauritius, Réunion
- Hederorkis seychellensis Bosser (1976) - Aldabra, Seychelles
See also
References
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- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (1999). Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press.
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2001). Genera Orchidacearum 2. Oxford Univ. Press.
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3. Oxford Univ. Press
- Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1–71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.kew.org/wcsp/ accessed Nov.12.2010.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. (DATE). The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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