Oeceoclades seychellarum
| Oeceoclades seychellarum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Oeceoclades |
| Species: | †O. seychellarum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Oeceoclades seychellarum | |
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Oeceoclades seychellarum is a terrestrial
invasive plants. Oeceoclades seychellarum was listed as being cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1905, but not after that date.[1]
It was first described by the English botanist
V.S. Summerhayes in 1928 as Eulophia seychellarum, a name that Summerhayes based on an unpublished manuscript name provided by Robert Allen Rolfe. Summerhayes later moved the species to the genus Eulophidium in 1957 and it was again transferred to the genus Oeceoclades in 1976 by Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Taylor. Garay and Taylor noted that this species is similar to O. lanceata in vegetative morphology, but these species differ in floral characteristics, especially in the shape and proportions of the labellum. The midlobe of the labellum in O. seychellarum is proportionally shorter than that of O. lanceata when compared to the length of the entire labellum.[4]
References
- ^ . Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ^ a b WCSP 2015. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015-6-10
- ^ Summerhayes, V. S. 1928. New plants from the Seychelles. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew), 1928(10): 388-395.
- ^ Garay, L.A., and P. Taylor. 1976. The genus Oeceoclades Lindl. Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University 24(9): 249-274.
External links
- Oeceoclades seychellarum type specimen from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew