Duckeella

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Vanilloideae
Tribus: Pogonieae
Genus: Duckeella
Species: (3)
D. adolphii – D. alticola – D. pauciflora
Name

Duckeella Porto & Brade, Anais Reunião Sul-Amer. Bot. 3: 31 (1938 publ. 1940)

Type species: Duckeella adolphii Porto & Brade, Anais Reunião Sul-Amer. Bot. 3: 32 (1938 publ. 1940)

References

Porto, P.C. & Brade, A.C. (1940) Anais Reunião Sul-Americana de Botânica 3 (1): 32.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) 2003. Genera Orchidacearum Volume 3: Orchidoideae (Part two); page 289 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850711-9
Govaerts, R. et al. 2012. Duckeella in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2012 Sept. 8. Reference page.
Emonocot.org 2013. Duckeella in The Orders and Families of Monocotyledons. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 May 15.
Tropicos.org 2012. Duckeella. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2012 Sept. 8.
International Plant Names Index. 2012. Duckeella. Published online. Accessed: 8 Sept. 2012.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America
Regional: Brazil
Brazil North.
Regional: Northern South America
Venezuela.
Regional: Western South America
Colombia.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
Vernacular names
перем коми: Дукеелла
коми: Дукеелла
кырык мары: Дукеелла
удмурт: Дукеелла

Duckeella is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), belonging to the subfamily Vanilloideae. It has 3 known species, all native to South America:[1]

The genus name of Duckesia is in honour of Adolpho Ducke (1876–1959), an entomologist, botanist and ethnographer specializing in Amazonia.[2] It was first published and described in Anais Reunião Sul-Amer. Bot. Vol.3 on page 31 in 1938 (published 1939).[3]
List of species

Duckeella adolphii Porto & Brade[4] - Venezuela and Brazil
Duckeella alticola C.Schweinf.[5] - Venezuela, Brazil and possibly Guyana
Duckeella pauciflora Garay[6] - Venezuela and Colombia

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
"Duckeella Porto & Brade | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
Anais Reunião Sul-Amer. Bot. 3: 32 (1938 publ. 1940).
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 19: 195 (1961).
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 18: 186 (1958).