Quekettia (plant)

{{Short description|Genus of orchids}}

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| image = Quekettia papillosa 7.jpg

| image_caption = Quekettia papillosa

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| taxon = Quekettia (plant)

| authority = Lindl., 1839 Edwards's Botanical Register 25: Misc. 3. 1839

| type_species = Quekettia microscopica

| type_species_authority = Lindl. in W.T.Aiton (1839)

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| synonyms =

• Stictophyllum Dodson & M.W.Chase 1989, illegitimate homonym, not Edgew. 1845
• Stictophyllorchis Dodson & Carnevali
• Scolopendrogyne Szlach. & Mytnik.

}}

Quekettia is a small genus of orchids classified in the subtribe Oncidiinae. This genus is found in the humid lowlands of Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela, Ecuador and Trinidad.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=171371 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]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.Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526002559/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/] Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/708640#page/627/mode/1up Cogniaux, Célestin Alfred. 1910. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 6: 624, Ionopsis pygmaea, synonym of Quekettia pygmaea in Trinidad]

The trade of these orchids is controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival CITES Appendix II

The name commemorates the author and microscopist Edwin John Quekett.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Quekett, John Thomas

|last=Boulger|first=George Simonds|authorlink=George Simonds Boulger|volume=47}}