| Rhynchostele | |
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| Rhynchostele cordata | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Clade: | Angiosperms | 
| Clade: | Monocots | 
| Order: | Asparagales | 
| Family: | Orchidaceae | 
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae | 
| Tribe: | Cymbidieae | 
| Subtribe: | Oncidiinae | 
| Genus: | Rhynchostele Rchb.f. (1852)[1]  | 
| Type species | |
| Rhynchostele pygmaea (Lindl.) Rchb. f.  | |
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Rhynchostele is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to Mexico, Central America and Venezuela.[2][3][4] The genus name is abbreviated as Rst. in the horticultural trade.
Species
At the present time (May 2014), 19 species are accepted.[2][5][6]
- Rhynchostele aptera (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Durango to Oaxaca
 - Rhynchostele bictoniensis (Bateman) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Oaxaca to Panama
 - Rhynchostele candidula (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
 - Rhynchostele cervantesii (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
 - Rhynchostele cordata (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Puebla to Costa Rica, plus Venezuela
 - Rhynchostele ehrenbergii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Hidalgo to Oaxaca
 - Rhynchostele galeottiana (A.Rich.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
 - Rhynchostele hortensiae (R.L.Rodr.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Costa Rica
 - Rhynchostele × humeana (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
 - Rhynchostele londesboroughiana (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Guerrero
 - Rhynchostele maculata (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar	
- Rhynchostele maculata subsp. maculata - Oaxaca
 - Rhynchostele maculata subsp. oestlundiana (L.O.Williams) Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez - from Veracruz to Costa Rica
 - Rhynchostele maculata f. perotensis Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez - Veracruz, Puebla
 
 - Rhynchostele madrensis (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
 - Rhynchostele majalis (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Tabasco to Guatemala
 - Rhynchostele oscarii Archila - Guatemala
 - Rhynchostele pygmaea (Lindl.) Rchb.f. - Guatemala and Chiapas
 - Rhynchostele rossii (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Querétaro to Nicaragua
 - Rhynchostele stellata (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Chiapas to Costa Rica, plus Venezuela
 - Rhynchostele uroskinneri (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Guatemala and Chiapas
 - Rhynchostele × vexativa (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - collected somewhere in Mexico c 1875, now probably extinct
 
See also
- List of Orchidaceae genera
 - × Oncostele, a hybrid genus with at least one Rhynchostele ancestor
 
References
- ↑ Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav. 1852. Botanische Zeitung (Berlin) 10(44): 770
 - 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
 - ↑ Soto Arenas, Miguel Angel & Salazar Chávez, Gerardo Adolfo. 1993. Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s. 13(1–2): 150.
 - ↑ Hágsater, E. & M. Soto. 2003. Orchids of Mexico. Icones Orchidacearum (Mexico) 5–6: i–xxii, t. 501–t. 700.
 - ↑ CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
 - ↑ Dressler, R.L. 2003. Orchidaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 3. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 1–595.
 
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2009). Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 340 ff. Oxford University Press.
 - Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart
 
External links
 Media related to Rhynchostele at Wikimedia Commons
 Data related to Rhynchostele at Wikispecies- Orchidroots.org Rhynchostele Species
 
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