Guarianthe

Guarianthe
Guarianthe skinneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Epidendreae
Subtribe:	Laeliinae
Genus:	Guarianthe Dressler & W.E. Higgins (2003)

Guarianthe, abbreviated Gur. in the horticultural trade, ^[1] is a small genus of epiphytic orchids, growing in wet forests in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. ^[2] It was separated from the bifoliate Cattleya s in 2003, ^[3] based on phylogenetic studies of nuclear DNA sequence data. ^[4]

Species

Image	Name	Distribution	Elevation (m)
	Guarianthe aurantiaca (Bateman) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003	Widespread across much of Mexico, south to Costa Rica	300 – 1600 meters
	Guarianthe bowringiana (Veitch) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003	Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras	210 – 900 meters
	Guarianthe patinii (Cogn.) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003	Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad; naturalized in Ecuador	30 – 800 meters
	Guarianthe skinneri (Bateman) Dressler & W.E. Higgins 2003	from Chiapas, Mexico south to Panama	200 – 2300 meters

Natural hybrid

• Guarianthe × laelioides (Lem.) Van den Berg 2015 = Gur. aurantiaca × Gur. skinneri ^[5] – Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua

References

1. http://www.rhs.org.uk/RHSWebsite/files/87/87be8b1e-908e-4e04-9ee6-30c438354458.pdf%5B‍%5D
2. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 2018-02-28.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
3. Dressler and Higgins: "Guarianthe, a Generic Name for the “Cattleya” skinneri Complex" Lankesteriana7(2003)37—38 Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
4. van den Berg et al.: "A Phylogenetic Analysis of Laeliinae (Orchidaceae) based on Sequence Data from Internal Transcribed Spacers (ITS)of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA", Lindleyana15(2)96—114. 2000. Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
5. "The International Orchid Register / RHS Gardening". apps.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-28.

• Thouars, L-M.A. du Petit- (1809) Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 1: 318.
• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2009) Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 71 ff. Oxford University Press.

External links

• Media related to Guarianthe at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Guarianthe at Wikispecies