Oeceoclades maculata

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Oeceoclades maculata']

English: Monk orchid

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Cymbidieae • Subtribus: Eulophiinae • Genus: Oeceoclades • Species: Oeceoclades maculata (Lindl.) Lindl. (1833)

Synonyms

Basionym
- Angraecum maculatum Lindl., Coll. Bot.: t. 15 (1821)
Homotypic synonyms
- Limodorum maculatum (Lindl.) Lodd., Bot. Cab. 5: t. 496 (1821)
- Aerobion maculatum (Lindl.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 718 (1826)
- Eulophia maculata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 647 (1863)
- Eulophidium maculatum (Lindl.) Pfitzer, Entwurf. Anordn. Orch.: 87 (1887)
- Graphorkis maculata (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 662 (1891)
Heterotypic synonyms
- Angraecum monophyllum A.Rich., Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 4: 58 (1828)
- Epidendrum connivens Vell., Fl. Flumin. 9: t. 44 (1831)
- Geodorum pictum Link in J.H.F.Link, J.F.Klotzsch & C.F.Otto, Icon. Pl. Rar. 1: 14 (1840)
- Eulophia monophylla (A.Rich.) S.Moore in J.G.Baker, Fl. Mauritius: 360 (1877)
- Eulophia ledienii Stein ex N.E.Br., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1889: 90 (1889)
- Eulophia liedenii N.E.Br., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1889: 90 (1889)
- Eulophia mackenii Rolfe ex Hemsl., Gard. Chron., III, 12: 583 (1892)
- Eulophidium warneckeanum Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 70 (1902)
- Eulophidium liedenii (N.E.Br.) De Wild., Ann. Mus. Congo Belge, Bot., V, 1: 115 (1903)
- Eulophidium mackenii (Rolfe ex Hemsl.) Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 593 (1915)
- Eulophidium monophyllum (A.Rich.) Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 593 (1915)
- Eulophidium nyassanum Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 593 (1915)
- Eulophidium maculatum var. pterocarpum Hauman, Anales Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 29: 381 (1917)
- Oeceoclades paraguayensis Hauman, Anales Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires 1917: 29 (1917)
- Oeceoclades mackenii (Rolfe ex Hemsl.) Garay & P.Taylor, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 24: 265 (1976)
- Oeceoclades maculata var. pterocarpa (Hauman) Garay & P.Taylor, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 24: 267 (1976)
- Oeceoclades monophylla (A.Rich.) Garay & P.Taylor, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 24: 267 (1976)

Type species

Oeceoclades maculata
plant with infructescences
Oeceoclades maculata
plant

Flowers edit

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Botanical illustrations edit

Oeceoclades maculata
(as syn.
Limodorum maculatum)
plate 496 in:
The Botanical Cabinet
Conrad Loddiges & Son
London (1817-1833)
Oeceoclades maculata
(as syn.
Angraecum maculatum)
plate 15 in:
John Lindley:
Collectanea botanica,
London (1821)
Oeceoclades maculata
(as syn.
Angraecum maculatum)
plate 618 in:
The Botanical Register
(Orchidaceae),
vol. 8,
(1822)
Oeceoclades maculata
(as syn.
Eulophidium maculatum)
plate 36 in:
Alfred Cogniaux:
Flora Brasiliensis
vol. 3 pt. 6
(1904-1906)

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Continental: Africa
- Regional: East Tropical Africa
  - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.
- Regional: Northeast Tropical Africa
  - Sudan.
- Regional: South Tropical Africa
  - Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe.
- Regional: Southern Africa
  - KwaZulu-Natal.
- Regional: West Tropical Africa
  - Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
- Regional: West-Central Tropical Africa
  - Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaire.
- Regional: Western Indian Ocean
  - Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion.

References edit

Description of taxon

Lindley, J.(1833) The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants 237–238.

Selected Bibliography

Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) (2014) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 5: Epidendroideae (Part two); page 112 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198507130

Selected Weblinks

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