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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Encyclia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Encyclia

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Orchidales Raf. pub. Anal. Nat.: 197. Apr-Jul 1815.       Subordo  Orchidineae Rchb. pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: xxxviii. Jul 1841.       Familia  Orchidaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 64. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Orchids       Genus  Encyclia Hook. common name: butterfly orchid

Named members of the Genus Encyclia

1	Species  boothiana (Lindl.) Dressler common name: dollar orchid
2	Species  cochleata (L.) Dressler
	3    Varietas  triandra (Ames) Dressler syn. Encyclia cochleata
4	Species  gravida (Lindl.) Schlechter common name: heavyfruit butterfly orchid
5	Species  isochila (Reichenb. f.) D. Dod common name: royal star orchid
6	Species  kraenzlinii (Bello) Ackerman syn. Psychilis kraenzlinii
7	Species  krugii (Bello) Britt. & Wilson syn. Psychilis krugii
8	Species  pygmaea (Hook.) Dressler common name: dwarf butterfly orchid
9	Species  rufa (Lindl.) Britt. & Millsp. common name: rufous butterfly orchid
10	Species  sintenisii (Reichenb. f.) Britt. syn. Encyclia gravida
11	Species  tampensis (Lindl.) Small common name: Tampa butterfly orchid

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.