Cyrtosia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Vanilloideae
Tribus: Vanilleae
Genus: Cyrtosia
Overview of species (6)

C. falconeri – C. integra – C. javanica – C. lindleyana – C. nana – C. septentrionalis
Name

Cyrtosia Blume, Bijdr.: 396 (1825)

Type species: Cyrtosia javanica Blume, Bijdr.: 396 (1825)

Synonymy

Heterotypic
Conchoglossum Breda, Gen. Sp. Orchid. Asclep. 4: t. 17 (1830)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Asia-Temperate
China
China South-Central, China Southeast.
Eastern Asia
Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan.
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Assam, East Himalaya, Sri Lanka.
Indo-China
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam.
Malesia
Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera.
Papuasia
New Guinea.

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

Blume, C.L. 1825. Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië 8: 396.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) 2003. Genera Orchidacearum Volume 3: Orchidoideae (Part two); page 302 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850711-9

Links

'eFloras 2009. Cyrtosia in Flora of China vol. 25 Orchidaceae --> pdf Cyrtosia
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2021. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Cyrtosia (Orchidaceae). Accessed: 2021 May 22.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Cyrtosia (Orchidaceae) 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 22. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Cyrtosia (Orchidaceae) in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 22. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. Cyrtosia (Orchidaceae). 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 22. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Cyrtosia (Orchidaceae). Published online. Accessed: 22 May 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Cyrtosia (Orchidaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 22.

Vernacular names

Cyrtosia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 5 known species, native to China, Japan, Korea, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and New Guinea.[1][2]

Cyrtosia integra (Rolfe ex Downie) Garay - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Cyrtosia javanica Blume - most of genus range
Cyrtosia nana (Rolfe ex Downie) Garay - Manipur, Thailand, Vietnam, Guizhou, Guangxi
Cyrtosia plurialata Seidenf. - Thailand
Cyrtosia septentrionalis (Rchb.f.) Garay - Japan, Korea, Ryukyu Islands, Anhui, Henan, Hunan, Zhejiang