Aspidogyne mendoncae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Orchidoideae
Tribus: Cranichideae
Subtribus: Goodyerinae
Genus: Aspidogyne
Species: Aspidogyne mendoncae
Name

Aspidogyne mendoncae (Brade & Pabst) Ormerod, Harvard Pap. Bot. 13: 58 (2008)
Synonymy

Basionym
Erythrodes mendoncae Brade & Pabst, Orquídea (Rio de Janeiro) 20: 5 (1958)
Heterotypic
Rhamphorhynchus mendoncae (Brade & Pabst) Garay, Bradea 2: 196 (1977)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America
Regional: Brazil
Brazil Southeast.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Ormerod, P.A. 2008. Harvard Papers in Botany 13(1): 58.

Links

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2020. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Aspidogyne mendoncae. Accessed: 2020 Sep 24.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Aspidogyne mendoncae in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Sep 24. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Aspidogyne mendoncae in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Sep 24. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Aspidogyne mendoncae. Published online. Accessed: 24 Sep 2020.
The Plant List 2013. Aspidogyne mendoncae in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Sep 24.
Tropicos.org 2020. Aspidogyne mendoncae. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Sep 24.

Vernacular names

Aspidogyne mendoncae is a species of orchid that grows in Brazil.
Biology

Aspidogyne mendoncae grows in humus on the floor of lowland forests, in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo.[1]
Taxonomic history

Aspidogyne mendoncae was first described by Alexander Curt Brade and Guido Frederico João Pabst in 1958, under the name Erythrodes mendoncae. In 1977, Leslie Andrew Garay transferred the species to a new, monotypic genus, Rhamphorhynchus, as Rhamphorhynchus mendoncae.[2] In 2008, Paul Ormerod concluded that the genus Rhamphorhynchyus could not be maintained as separate from Aspidogyne, creating the current combination, Aspidogyne mendoncae.[3]
References

Alec M. Pridgeon (2003). "162. Rhamphorhynchus". Genera Orchidacearum: Volume 3: Orchidoideae (Part 2), Vanilloideae. Oxford University Press. pp. 141–142. ISBN 978-0-19-850711-6.
L. A. Garay (1977). "Systematics of the Physurinae (Orchidaceae) in the New World". Bradea. 2: 191–208.
Paul Ormerod (2008). "Studies of Neotropical Goodyerinae (Orchidaceae) 3". Harvard Papers in Botany. 13 (1): 55–87. doi:10.3100/1043-4534(2008)13[55:SONGO]2.0.CO;2.