Warmingia
Encyclopedia
Warmingia is a genus
of orchid belonging to the subfamily Epidendroideae
within the Orchidaceae
family. It has four species.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of orchid belonging to the subfamily Epidendroideae
Epidendroideae
In plant systematics Epidendroideae is a subfamily of the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Epidendroideae is larger than all the other orchid subfamilies together, comprising more than 15,000 species in 576 genera. Most Epidendroid orchids are tropical epiphytes, typically with pseudobulbs...
within the Orchidaceae
Orchidaceae
The Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species,...
family. It has four species.
Species
- Warmingia buchtienii (Schltr.) Schltr. ex Garay & Christenson (1996)
- Warmingia eugenii Rchb.f.Heinrich Gustav ReichenbachHeinrich Gustav Reichenbach was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century...
(1881) - Typus Species - Warmingia holopetala Kraenzl. (1920)
- Warmingia zamorana Dodson (1989)
External links
- Plant systematics
- The International Plant Names Index
- Catalogue of Life
- Encyclopedia of Life
- http://orchids.wikia.com/wiki/Warmingia
- Orchidaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The Families of Flowering Plants: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, Information Retrieval.
- Catalogue of Life
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
- GRIN Taxonomy of Plants
- USDA