Bulbophyllum pachyrachis

rat-tail orchid
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Bulbophyllum
Species: B. pachyrachis
Binomial name
Bulbophyllum pachyrachis
(A.Rich.) Griseb.
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurothallis pachyrachis A.Rich. in R.de la Sagra
  • Bolbophyllaria pachyrachis (A.Rich.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
  • Phyllorkis pachyrachis (A.Rich.) Kuntze
  • Pachyrhachis pineliana A.Rich.
  • Bolbophyllaria oerstedii Rchb.f.
  • Bulbophyllum oerstedii (Rchb.f.) Hemsl.
  • Phyllorkis oerstedii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
  • Bulbophyllum vinosum Schltr.

Bulbophyllum pachyrachis, the rat-tail orchid, is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. It is widespread across southern Mexico, the West Indies, Central America and northern South America. It is also reported from Florida but apparently now extinct in that state.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Flora of North America v 26 p 619, Bulbophyllum pachyrachis (A. Richard) Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. I. 613. 1864.
  3. ↑ Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 3: 1-884. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  4. ↑ Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  5. ↑ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  6. ↑ Ibisch, P. L. 1996. Neotropische Epiphytendiversitat–das Beispiel Bolivien. Archiv Naturwissenschaftlicher Dissertationen 1: 1–357.
  7. ↑ Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  8. ↑ Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i–xl, 1–1286

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