Schunkea

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: Schunkea
Species: S. vierlingii
Name

Schunkea Senghas, Palmengarten 58: 128 (1994)

monotypic taxon

References

Senghas, K. (1994) Der Palmengarten 58(2): 128, f. 1–3.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) 2014. Genera Orchidacearum Volume 5: Epidendroideae (Part two); page 354 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850713-0
Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Schunkea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Mar. 29. Reference page.
Emonocot.org 2015. Schunkea in The Orders and Families of Monocotyledons. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 July 29.
Tropicos.org 2013. Schunkea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Mar. 29.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Schunkea. Published online. Accessed: 29. Mar. 2013.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America
Regional: Brazil
Brazil Southeast.

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

Schunkea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae. The only known species is Schunkea vierlingii.[1]

It is native to south-eastern Brazil.[1]

The genus name of Schunkea is in honour of Vital Schunk (fl. 1990–1999), co-collector of this plant in southeast Brazil.[2] The Latin specific epithet of vierlingii refers to botanist and plant collector, Gerhard Vierling (fl. 2016), who later published Seegeriella senghasiana Vierling in OrchideenJ. Vol.23 (Issue 2) on page 80 in 2016. In honour of Seghas.[3] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Palmengarten Vol.58 on page 128 in 1994.[1]

References

"Schunkea Senghas | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
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.
"Vierling, Gerhard | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 10 December 2021.