Cremastra

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Epidendroideae
Tribus: Calypsoeae
Genus: Cremastra
Overview of species (6)

C. amabilis – C. aphylla – C. appendiculata – C. guizhouensis – C. malipoensis – C. unguiculata
Name

Cremastra Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 172 (1833)

Type species: Cremastra appendiculata (D.Don) Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 18: 24 (1904)

Synonymy

Heterotypic
Hyacinthorchis Blume, Mus. Bot. 1: 48 (1849)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Asia-Temperate
China
China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet.
Eastern Asia
Japan, Korea, Taiwan.
Russian Far East
Kuril Islands, Sakhalin.
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Assam, East Himalaya, Nepal.
Indo-China
Thailand, Vietnam.

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

Lindley, J. 1833. The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants 172.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) 2006. Genera Orchidacearum Volume 4 Epidendroideae (Part one); page 99 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850712-7. Reference page.

Links

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2022. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Cremastra. Accessed: 2022 Feb 4.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Cremastra in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2022 Feb 4. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Cremastra in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2022 Feb 4. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Cremastra. 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. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2022 Feb 4. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Cremastra. Published online. Accessed: 4 Feb 2022.
Tropicos.org 2022. Cremastra. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2022 Feb 4.

Vernacular names

English: Handle orchids
日本語: サイハイラン属
перем коми: Кремастра
коми: Кремастра
мокшень: Кремастра
кырык мары: Кремастра
удмурт: Кремастра
中文: 杜鹃兰属

Cremastra is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 4 currently recognized species (as of May 2014), native to China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, the Himalayas, and the Russian Far East.[1][2]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Cremastra aphylla T.Yukawa	Japan
	Cremastra appendiculata (D.Don) Makino	Taiwan, China (Tibet, Anhui, Chongqing, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Yunnan,) Bhutan, Assam, Nepal, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Kuril, Sakhalin
	Cremastra guizhouensis Q.H.Chen & S.C.Chen	Guizhou
	Cremastra unguiculata (Finet) Finet	Jiangxi, Korea, Japan

See also

List of Orchidaceae genera

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Flora of China, v 25 p 249, 杜鹃兰属 du juan lan shu, Cremastra

Lindley, J. (1833) The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants 172.
Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2006). Epidendroideae (Part One). Genera Orchidacearum 4: 99 ff. Oxford University Press.