Quekettia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Epidendroideae
Tribus: Cymbidieae
Subtribus: Oncidiinae
Genus: Quekettia
Overview of species (5)

Q. microscopica – Q. papillosa – Q. peruviana – Q. pygmaea – Q. vermeuleniana
Name

Quekettia Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 25(Misc.): 3 (1839)

Type species: Quekettia microscopica Lindl. (1839)

Synonymy

Heterotypic
Stictophyllum Dodson & M.W.Chase, Icon. Pl. Trop., II, 6: t. 584 (1989), nom. illeg.
Stictophyllorchis Dodson & Carnevali, Lindleyana 8: 101 (1993)
Scolopendrogyne Szlach. & Mytnik, Richardiana 9: 205 (2009)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Southern America
Caribbean
Trinidad-Tobago.
Northern South America
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela.
Western South America
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru.
Brazil
Brazil Northeast, Brazil North.

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

References
Primary references

Lindley, J. 1839. Edwards's Botanical Register 25(Misc.): 3.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) 2014. Genera Orchidacearum Volume 5: Epidendroideae (Part two); page 336 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850713-0

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Quekettia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 April 20. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Quekettia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 April 20. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Quekettia. Published online. Accessed: 3 July 2020.
The Plant List 2013. Quekettia in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 April 20.
Tropicos.org 2019. Quekettia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 April 20.

Vernacular names

Quekettia is a small genus of orchids classified in the subtribe Oncidiinae. This genus is found in the humid lowlands of Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela, Ecuador and Trinidad.[2][3][4][5]

The trade of these orchids is controlled to avoid use incompatible with species survival [6]

The name commemorates the author and microscopist Edwin John Quekett.[7]
Species

Species accepted as of June 2014:[2]

Quekettia microscopica Lindl. (French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, NE Brazil)
Quekettia papillosa Garay (Suriname, Pará)
Quekettia pygmaea (Cogn.) Garay & R.E.Schult. (Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Trinidad)
Quekettia vermeuleniana Determann (Suriname)[8]

formerly included[2]

moved to: Capanemia

Q. australis - Capanemia micromera
Q. carinata - Capanemia carinata
Q. duseniana - Capanemia theresae
Q. longirostellata - Capanemia theresae
Q. micromera - Capanemia micromera
Q. theresae - Capanemia theresae

References

Edwards's Botanical Register 25: Misc. 3. 1839
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2009). Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 1-585. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010.[permanent dead link] Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Cogniaux, Célestin Alfred. 1910. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 6: 624, Ionopsis pygmaea, synonym of Quekettia pygmaea in Trinidad
CITES Appendix II
Boulger, George Simonds (1896). "Quekett, John Thomas" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Determann RO. 1981 A new species of Quekettia (Orchidaceae) from Surinam. Selbyana 5. (3 - 4): 306 - 307 (1981)