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Genus of flowering plants belonging to the orchid family

Pterygodium
Pterygodium catholicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Orchideae
Subtribe: Coryciinae
Genus: Pterygodium
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Synonyms
  • Ommatodium Lindl.
  • Anochilus (Schltr.) Rolfe in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc.

Pterygodium is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It found primarily in southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini) but one species is endemic to Tanzania.

Species accepted as of June 2014:

  1. Pterygodium acutifolium Lindl. - Cape Province
  2. Pterygodium afrum (L.) Sw. - Cape Province
  3. Pterygodium alatum (Thunb.) Sw. - Cape Province
  4. Pterygodium catholicum (L.) Sw. - Cape Province
  5. Pterygodium cleistogamum (Bolus) Schltr. - Cape Province
  6. Pterygodium connivens Schelpe - Cape Province
  7. Pterygodium cooperi Rolfe in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. - Cape Province, Kwazulu-Natal, Lesotho
  8. Pterygodium cruciferum Sond. - Cape Province
  9. Pterygodium hallii (Schelpe) Kurzweil & H.P.Linder - Cape Province
  10. Pterygodium hastatum Bolus - Cape Province, Kwazulu-Natal, Lesotho, Free State, Mpumalanga, Eswatini
  11. Pterygodium inversum (Thunb.) Sw. - Cape Province
  12. Pterygodium leucanthum Bolus - Cape Province, Kwazulu-Natal, Lesotho
  13. Pterygodium magnum Rchb.f. - Cape Province, Kwazulu-Natal, Free State, Mpumalanga
  14. Pterygodium newdigatae Bolus - Cape Province
  15. Pterygodium pentherianum Schltr. - Cape Province
  16. Pterygodium platypetalum Lindl. - Cape Province
  17. Pterygodium schelpei H.P.Linder - Cape Province
  18. Pterygodium ukingense Schltr. - Tanzania
  19. Pterygodium vermiferum E.G.H.Oliv. & Liltved - Cape Province
  20. Pterygodium volucris (L.f.) Sw. - Cape Province

See also

References

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2001). Orchidoideae (Part 1). Genera Orchidacearum 2: 1-416. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

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Taxon identifiers
Pterygodium


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