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Network Scan Data Selbyana 7: 281-311 HERBARIUM SPECIMENS OF THE ORCHIDACEAE OF CENTRAL CENTRAL AMERICA - A CHECKLIST Emly S. Siegerist* As so often happens, the pursuit of one scientific endeavor leads to an­ other. While researching a project it came to mind that it would greatly sim­ plify a botanist's work if there were available a checklist of the specimens in various herbaria. Since I am interested primarily in the Orchidaceae of the central portion of Central America, i.e., Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, that area was delineated for this project. Some of the major herbaria in this country and Central America were visited, specimens photographed, or in some instances merely noted, and this list compiled. It is not purported to be a complete listing as by its very nature a herbarium must be in a state of fluidity - specimens always out on loan, new sheets constantly being added, others being studied at the parent insti­ tution. Therefore, this compilation represents the central Central American orchid specimens present on the days I visited the herbaria, not their com­ plete collection. Nevertheless, it has been made as comprehensive as possible. Four of the herbaria cited (lTIC, HNMN, NIC, and NY) were not visited by the author, but photographs, and in some instances drawings, were ac­ quired which serve as vouchers for the validity of their inclusion in this list. In any treatment of the Orchidaceae, the question of current nomencla­ ture arises. Not being a taxonomist, no attempt was made to verify the valid­ ity of the labels or annotation labels on the sheets. The list does, however, try to conform to the present thinking of taxonomists and therefore, as an example, Rhyncholaelia glauca will have its synonym Laelia glauca listed under it in parentheses. In an effort to conserve space, no cross index is provided. No attempt has been made to supply all of the synonymy of the spe­ cies. Only names under which specimens appear in the various herbaria, or those names still in common usage which have been reduced to synonymy have been included. Understandably, this work could not have been accomplished without the help and cooperation of many people. An especial thanks must be given to Dr. Calaway Dodson of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, who offered much encouragement and assistance, in fact, even sug­ gested the usefulness of such a checklist; to Dr. Leslie A. Garay of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, who helped immeasurably with the nomenclature, offered valuable photo­ graphic advice, and gave generously of his time to an aspiring student of the Orchidaceae; to Fritz Hamer of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens who so very generously shared his photographs and drawings from HNMN, ITIC, NIC, and his own works on the orchids of El Salvador and Nicaragua. The herbarium abbreviations used are in most instances the standard ones with exceptions as noted below: AMES - Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, Harvard University, Cam­ bridge, MA EAP - Escuela Agricola Panamericana, Zamorano, Honduras * 12949 Windy Hill Drive, St. Louis. MO 63128 281 282 SELBYANA [Vol. 7 ESNASCIFOR - Herbario Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Forestales, Siguate­ peque, Dpto. Comayagua, Honduras (This is the acronym used at the forestry school but is not officially registered.) F­ Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL HNMN­ Herbario Nacional de Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua ITIC - Herbario Departmento Biologia Facultad de Ciencas y Humanidades, Universidad EI Salvador, San Salvador, EI Salvador MO­ Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, St. Louis, MO NIC - Warren Douglas Stevens' herbarium in Nicaragua. (Applica­ tion has been made for this acronym.) NY­ Herbarium of New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, NY SEL - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Herbarium, Sarasota, FL US- Smithsonian Institution Herbarium, Washington, DC Acostea ssp. Aspasia principissa Rchb. 1. Nicaragua· F Guatemala - AMES Amparoa costaricensis Schltr. Aspidogyne stictophylla (Schltr.) Garay El Salvador - SEL (Physurus stictophylla (Schltr.) Ames) Honduras - EAP, F, SEL Guatemala - AMES, F Nicaragua - SEL Aspidogyne tuerckheimii (Schltr.) Garay Apatostelis ciliaris (Lind!,) Garay (Erythrodes tuerckheimii (Schltr.) Ames) (Stelis ciliaris Lind!.) Guatemala - AMES Belize - AMES, MO Honduras - AMES, MO Guatemala - AMES, SEL Aulosepalum hemichrea (Lind!,) Garay Honduras - AMES, MO (Spiranthes hemichrea Lind!.) Apatostelis inaequalis (Ames) Garay (Deiregyne hemichrea (Lind!.) Schltr.) Honduras - AMES El Salvador - AMES, SEL Apatostelis rubens (Schltr.) Garay Guatemala - AMES, F (Stelis rubens Schltr.) Nicaragua - F, SEL Belize - AMES Arundina bambusifolia Lind!. Guatemala - AMES.. F Honduras - F Honduras - AMES, EAP Arundina graminifolia (D. Don) Schltr. Nicaragua - NIC, SEL Honduras - EAP, F Arpophyllum alpinum Lind!. Aspasia epidendroides Lind!. EI Salvador - AMES, F, MO, SEL EI Salvador - AMES, MO, SEL Guatemala - AMES, F, MO, SEL Guatemala - F Honduras - AMES, ESNACIFOR, F, MO Honduras - SEL Nicaragua - F, SEL Nicaragua - AMES, EAP, F, MO, SEL Arpophyllum giganteum Hartweg. ex Lind!. Barbosella anaristella (Krz!.) Garay El Salvador - AMES, MO Nicaragua - F Guatemala· SEL Barbosella prorepens (Rchb. f.) Schltr. Honduras - AMES, F Nicaragua - F Nicaragua - SEL Barkeria chinensis (Lind!,) Thien Arpophyllum medium Rchb. f. (B. chinensis ssp. chinensis (Lind!,) El Salvador - AMES, MO, SEL Thien) Guatemala - AMES El Salvador - AMES, MO, SEL Honduras - SEL Guatemala - AMES, F Nicaragua - EAP, F, MO, SEL Honduras - AMES, EAP, F, MO, SEL Arpophyllum spicatum Llave & Lex. Nicaragua - AMES, F, MO, SEL Belize - F Barkeria cyclotella Rchb. f. Guatemala, AMES, F Guatemala - AMES Honduras - AMES, EAP, F, MO, SEL Barkeria elegans Lind!. Nicaragua - EAP, MO, SEL Guatemala - AMES Arpophyllum ssp. Barkeria lindley ana Batem. ex Lind!. Guatemala - F El Salvador - SEL Honduras - ESNACIFOR, MO, SEL 1984] SIEGERIST: ORCHIDACEAE OF MID-CENTRAL AMERICA 283 Barkeria palmeri (Rolfe) Schltr. Beloglottis mexicana Garay & Hamer Guatemala - AMES El Salvador - SEL Barkeria skinneri Batem. ex Lind!. Nicaragua - SEL Guatemala - AMES, F, SEL Beloglottis subpandurata (A. & S.) Barkeria spectabi/is Batem Guatemala - AMES (B. lindleyana ssp. spect~bilis (Batem ) Honduras - AMES Thien) . Bletia alta (L.) Hitch. EI Salvador - AMES, SEL Belize - AMES Guatemala - AMES F SEL El Salvador - AMES Honduras - AMES, MO, SEL Bletia campanulata Llave & Lex. Barkeria strophnix (Rchb. f.) Halbinger El Salvador - AMES, MO, SEL Guatemala - AMES Guatemala - EAP Honduras - US Baskervilla nicaraguensis Hamer & Garay Nicaragua - MO, SEL Nicaragua - SEL Bletia edwardsii Ames Beadlea comosa (Rchb. f.) Hamer & Garay El Salvador - AMES, EAP ITIC Belize - AMES MO,SEL " El Salvador - AMES, SEL Honduras - AMES EAP US Beadlea cranichoides (Grise b.) Small Nicaragua - SEL' , (Spiran thes cranichoides (Griseb.) Cogn.) Bletia ensifolia L. O. Wms. Belize - AMES Guatemala - F El Salvador - AMES Nicaragua - F, SEL Bletia purpurata Rich. & Gal. (Cry be rosea Lindl.) Beadlea elata (Sw.) Small EI Salvador - AMES, ITIC, MO, SEL (Spiranthes elata (Sw.) L. C. Rich) Guatemala - AMES, EAP, SEL Belize - AMES Honduras - AMES F El Salvador - F, SEL Nicaragua - MO ' Guatemala - AMES, F Honduras - EAP Bletia purpurea (Lam.) DC. Nicaragua - AMES, SEL Belize - AMES, F, MO El Salvador - AMES, F, SEL Beadlea miradorensis (Schltr.) Garay & Guatemala - AMES EAP F MO Dunsterv. SEL "" (Spiranthes elata (Sw.) L. C. Rich.) Honduras - AMES, EAP, F, MO, SEL El Salvador - SEL Nicaragua - AMES, EAP, F, MO, SEL Nicaragua - EAP, SEL Bletia reflexa Lind!. Beadlea prasophylla (Rchb. f.) Hamer & Guatemala - AMES EAP F Garay Honduras - F ' , (Spiranthes prasophyllum Rchb. f.) El Salvador - SEL Bletia roezlii Rchb. f. Guatemala - AMES, F (B. gracilis v. roezlii (Rchb. f.) L. O. Honduras - AMES F Wms. Nicaragua - MO, SEL EI Salvador - AMES, MO, SEL Guatemala - AMES, F Beadlea saccata (Rich. & Gal.) Garay Honduras - AMES, EAP, F Guatemala - AMES Nicaragua - MO Beadlea wercklei (Schltr.) Garay & Pabst Nicaragua - SEL Bletia sps. Guatemala - F Beloglottis bicaudata (Ames) Garay & Honduras - F, SEL Dunsterv. Honduras - SEL Bothriochilus bellus Lem. Nicaragua - SEL (Coelia bella (Lem.) Rchb. f.) Guatemala - AMES Belogl~ttis costaricensis (Rchb. L) Schltr. Honduras - AMES (Splranthes costaricensis Rchb. L) Guatemala - AMES F Bothriochilus densiflorus (Rolfe) A. & C. Honduras - AMES EAP F (Coelia densiflora Rolfe) Nicaragua - EAP, MO, SEL El Salvador - AMES Guatemala - AMES Belloglottis ecallosa (A. & S.) Hamer & Honduras - F Garay El Salvador - SEL Bothriochilus guatemalensis (Rchb. f.) Beloglottis hameri Garay L. O. Wms. El Salvador - AMES, SEL (Coelia guatemalensis Rchb. f.) Honduras - AMES El Salvador - AMES Guatemala - AMES, F Nicaragua - SEL 284 SELBY ANA [Vol. 7 Bothriochilus macrostachyus (Lindl.) Briegeria teretifolia (Sw.) Sengh. L. 0. Wms. (Jacquiniella teretifolium (Sw.) Britt & (Coelia macrostachya Lindl.) Wilson) EI Salvador - AMES El Salvador - AMES Guatemala - AMES, EAP, F, SEL Guatemala - AMES, EAP, F Honduras - AMES Honduras - AMES, EAP, F, MO Brachystele guayensis (Lind!,) Schltr. Nicaragua - AMES, EAP, F, SEL (Spiranthes guayanensis (Lind!,) Cogn.) Bulbophyllum aristatum (Rchb. f.) Hems!. Honduras - AMES, F El Salvador - AMES, MO, SEL Brassavola cucullata (L.) R. Br. Guatemala - AMES, F EI Salvador - AMES, MO, SEL Honduras - AMES, EAP Guatemala - AMES, F, MO Bulbophyllum pachyrachis (A. Rich.) Honduras - AMES,
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