Dicranopygium

Dicranopygium
Dicranopygium microcephalum [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Pandanales
Family:	Cyclanthaceae
Genus:	Dicranopygium Harling 1954

Dicranopygium microcephalum

Dicranopygium is a genus of plants belonging to the family Cyclanthaceae, first described as a genus in 1954. They are distributed in the Neotropical realm from southern Mexico to Peru. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Species

Species include: ^[2]

• Dicranopygium amazonicum - NW Brazil
• Dicranopygium angustissimum - Guyana
• Dicranopygium aristeguietae - Venezuela
• Dicranopygium arusisense - Colombia
• Dicranopygium atrovirens - Colombia
• Dicranopygium aurantiacum - Colombia
• Dicranopygium bolivarense - Venezuela
• Dicranopygium calimense - Colombia, Ecuador
• Dicranopygium callithrix - Colombia
• Dicranopygium campii - Ecuador
• Dicranopygium coma-pyrrhae - Ecuador
• Dicranopygium crinitum - Panama
• Dicranopygium cuatrecasanum - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
• Dicranopygium dolichostemon - Colombia
• Dicranopygium euryphyllum - Ecuador
• Dicranopygium fissile - Colombia
• Dicranopygium globosum - Colombia
• Dicranopygium goudotii - Colombia
• Dicranopygium gracile - Veracruz, Oaxaca, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
• Dicranopygium grandifolium - Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
• Dicranopygium harlingii - Costa Rica, Panama
• Dicranopygium idrobonis - Colombia
• Dicranopygium imeriense - Guyana, Venezuela, NW Brazil
• Dicranopygium insulare - Tobago
• Dicranopygium latissimum - Peru
• Dicranopygium lugonis - Ecuador, Peru
• Dicranopygium macrophyllum - Venezuela
• Dicranopygium microcephalum - Costa Rica, Honduras
• Dicranopygium mirabile - Colombia
• Dicranopygium nanum - Guyana, Venezuela
• Dicranopygium novogranatense - Colombia
• Dicranopygium odoratum - Colombia
• Dicranopygium omichlophilum - Venezuela, Colombia
• Dicranopygium pachystemon - Peru
• Dicranopygium parvulum - Colombia
• Dicranopygium polycephalum - Colombia
• Dicranopygium pygmaeum - Colombia, the Guianas
• Dicranopygium rheithrophilum - Colombia, Ecuador
• Dicranopygium robustum - Amazonas in Venezuela
• Dicranopygium rupestre - Venezuela
• Dicranopygium sanctae-martae - Colombia
• Dicranopygium sararense - Colombia
• Dicranopygium schultesii - Colombia, Ecuador
• Dicranopygium scoparum - Colombia
• Dicranopygium stenophyllum - Ecuador
• Dicranopygium tatica - Costa Rica
• Dicranopygium testaceum - Panama, Colombia
• Dicranopygium trianae - Colombia
• Dicranopygium umbrophilum - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
• Dicranopygium venezuelanum - Venezuela
• Dicranopygium wallisii - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
• Dicranopygium wedelii - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras
• Dicranopygium williamsii - Ecuador, Peru
• Dicranopygium yacu-sisa - Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela

Gallery

• 
  Dicranopygium aff. harlingii at UC Berkeley Botanical Garden.
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  Dicranopygium atrovirens at Munich Botanical Garden.
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  Dicranopygium stenophyllum.
• 
  Dicranopygium microcephalum flower.

References

1. illustration probably by Matilda Smith (1854-1926) - Curtis's Botanical Magazine v.118 [ser. 3:v.48] (1892)
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Discover Life Dicranopygium page
4. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
5. Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín
6. Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá
7. Harling, G. W. 1958. Monograph of the Cyclanthaceae. Acta Horti Bergiani 18: 1–428

External links

• Hammel, B. E. (2003). New Species of Cyclanthaceae from southern Central America and northern South America. Novon 13 52–63.