Checklist of Orchidaceae from Caquetá, Colombia

By

Arias, Tatiana
Chaux-Varela, Jeisson
Camero, Maria Del Pilar
Calderón-Álvarez, Ramón Alexis
Trujillo, Angie Carolina
Correa-Munera, Marco A.
Zuluaga Tróchez, Alejandro
Perdomo, Oscar
Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A.
Trujillo, Edwin
Valencia-D., Janice

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

229

Pages

21--46

Subjects

Alpha diversity , Amazon , Andes , floristic studies , foothills , Orchids

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.229.102737

 

Abstract

A checklist of Orchidaceae from Caquetá, Colombia is presented here. We recorded 98 genera and 418 species, exceeding a previous inventory by 276 species. The checklist is conservative in the number of genera and species by including only taxa that were fully and reliably identified and that are either linked to a corresponding herbarium voucher, a living collection specimen or a photo taken in the field and published in iNaturalist by one of the authors or a collaborator. The documented species diversity in the region could dramatically increase in the next few years with additional collecting efforts in the eastern slopes of the Andes nested in Caquetá. About 9% (418/4600) of all Orchidaceae species recorded for Colombia are reported for this area, showing the important contribution to orchid diversity of Andean-Amazonian foothills of Caquetá.