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Frondaria

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Frondaria is a genus of orchid native to western South America. The species Frondaria caulescens is found at high altitudes from central Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It is unique because of its leaflike sheaths of the ramicauls.

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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Frondaria, and connects out to Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.

It is catalogued under topics including Monotypic Epidendroideae genera, Orchids of South America and Pleurothallidinae.

Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Southern Emerald

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyOrchidaceae
Native toBolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Observations9,743

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
3
With media
3
Family
Orchidaceae
Collections
SEL, AMES
Recorded in
Ecuador, Colombia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Pleurothallidinae
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taxon name
Frondaria
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Frondaria
taxon common name
Фрондари
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Frondaria is a genus of orchid native to western South America. The species Frondaria caulescens is found at high altitudes from central Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It is unique because of its leaflike sheaths of the ramicauls.

The genus includes three accepted species: Frondaria caulescens (Lindl.) Luer Frondaria colombiana Szlach., Kolan. & Rykacz. Frondaria graminea (Schltr.) Szlach., Kolan. & Rykacz.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frondaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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