Bletia purpurea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asparagales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Asparagales

Bletia purpurea (Lam.) A.DC., Rapp. [Not.] Pl. Rar. Genève 8: 23. (1840)

Basionym
- Limodorum purpureum Lam., Encycl. 3: 515 (1792)
Homotypic
- Serapias purpurea (Lam.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Tabl. Encycl. 3: 306 (1823)
Heterotypic
- Limodorum tuberosum Jacq., Collectanea 4: 108 (1790), nom. illeg.
- Limodorum verecundum Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 9 (1796)
- Cymbidium verecundum (Salisb.) Sw., Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 6: 75 (1799)
- Limodorum trifidum Michx., Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 159 (1803)
- Cymbidium altum Willd., Sp. Pl. 4: 105 (1805)
- Cymbidium trifidum (Michx.) Sw., Neues J. Bot. 1: 76 (1805)
- Epidendrum altum (Willd.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 1: 374 (1810)
- Gyas verecunda (Salisb.) Salisb., Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 299 (1812)
- Bletia verecunda (Salisb.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton, Hortus Kew. 5: 206 (1813)
- Helleborine americana Steud., Nomencl. Bot.: 398 (1821)
- Bletia pallida Lodd., Bot. Cab. 7: t. 629 (1822)
- Bletia expansa Ten., Index Seminum (NAP) 1829: 14 (1829)
- Bletia acutipetala Hook., Bot. Mag. 60: t. 3217 (1833)
- Bletia havannensis Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24: t. 28 (1838)
- Bletia pulchella auct., Gard. Chron. 1850: 168 (1850)
- Bletia pottsii S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 478 (1887)
- Bletia purpurea var. pittieri Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 50 (1922)
- Bletia purpurea var. alba Ariza-Julia & J.Jiménez Alm., Rhodora 62: 236 (1960)

Native distribution areas:

Northern America
- Southeastern U.S.A.
  - Florida.
- Mexico
  - Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast.
Southern America
- Central America
  - Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.
- Caribbean
  - Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, lee Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Islands.
- Northern South America
  - French Guiana, Venezuela.
- Western South America
  - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.
- Brazil
  - Brazil North.

Candolle, A.L.P.P. de 1841. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 9(1): 97–98.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2021. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Bletia purpurea. Accessed: 2021 Mar 13.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Bletia purpurea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Mar 13. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Bletia purpurea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Mar 13. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. Bletia purpurea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Mar 13. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Bletia purpurea. Published online. Accessed: 13 Mar 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Bletia purpurea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 13 Mar 2021.

English: Pine-pink

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