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Mesadenella is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It consists of 7 known species, native to Mexico, Central America and South America:

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyOrchidaceae
Native toArgentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador
Observations recorded1,107

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Specimen records
22
With media
8
Family
Orchidaceae
Collections
SEL, ESALQ, NY, JBRJ, UEL, UFMG
Recorded in
Paraguay, Brasil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Perú

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Mesadenella is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It consists of 7 known species, native to Mexico, Central America and South America: Mesadenella angustisegmenta Garay – Venezuela, Ecuador Mesadenella atroviridis (Barb.Rodr.) Garay – Brazil Mesadenella cuspidata (Lindl.) Garay – from Colombia east to Guyana and south to Argentina Mesadenella meeae R.J.V.Alves – Brazil Mesadenella peruviana Garay – Peru Mesadenella tonduzii (Schltr.) Pabst & Garay – from southern Mexico south to Nicaragua; also Pará region of Brazil Mesadenella variegata D.E.Benn. & Christenson – Peru

== See also == List of Orchidaceae genera

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

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