Prosthechea aemula

Taxonavigation

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

Prosthechea aemula (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins, Phytologia 82: 376 (1997 publ. 1998)

Basionym
- Epidendrum aemulum Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 22: t. 1898 (1836)
Homotypic
- Epidendrum fragrans var. aemulum (Lindl.) Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 136 (1881)
- Encyclia fragrans subsp. aemula (Lindl.) Dressler, Phytologia 21: 440 (1971)
- Encyclia aemula (Lindl.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: 1257 (1993)
- Anacheilium aemulum (Lindl.) Withner & P.A.Harding, Cattleyas & Relatives: Debatable Epidendrums: 42 (2004)
Heterotypic
- Epidendrum cordatum Vell., Fl. Flumin. 9: t. 38 (1831), nom. illeg.
- Epidendrum cordifolium Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 557 (1840)
- Epidendrum aemulum var. brevistriatum Rchb.f., Linnaea 41: 37 (1876)
- Epidendrum fragrans var. alticallum Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 138 (1882)
- Epidendrum fragrans var. janeirense Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 137 (1882)
- Epidendrum fragrans var. micranthum Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 138 (1882)
- Epidendrum fragrans var. rivularium Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 137 (1882)
- Epidendrum fragrans var. brevistriatum (Rchb.f.) Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 3(5): 85 (1898)

Native distribution areas:

Southern America
- Central America
  - Panama.
- Caribbean
  - Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Islands.
- Northern South America
  - French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela.
- Western South America
  - Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.
- Brazil
  - Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South.

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International Plant Names Index. 2020. Prosthechea aemula. Published online. Accessed: 4 April 2020.
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