Cleistes rosea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Vanilloideae
Tribus: Pogonieae
Genus: Cleistes
Species: Cleistes rosea
Name

Cleistes rosea Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 410 (1840)
Synonymy

Homotypic
Pogonia rosea (Lindl.) Rchb.f., Xenia Orchid. 2: 89 (1865)
Heterotypic
Epistephium monanthum Poepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 1: 53 (1836)
Pogonia rosea var. augusta Hoehne, Relat. Commiss. Linhas Telegr. Estratég. Matto Grosso Amazonas 5(4): 9 (1912)
Pogonia venusta Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 42 (1920)
Pogonia monantha (Poepp. & Endl.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 121 (1921), nom. illeg.
Cleistes venusta (Schltr.) Schltr., Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 180 (1926)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

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

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

Lindley, J. 1840. The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants 410.

Links

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2021. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Cleistes rosea. Accessed: 2021 May 12.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Cleistes rosea in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 12. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Cleistes rosea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 12. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. Cleistes rosea. 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 on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 12. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Cleistes rosea. Published online. Accessed: 12 May 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Cleistes rosea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 12.

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