Encyclia

Carnevali, Germán, Tamayo-Cen, Iván, Méndez-Luna, Carlos E., Ramírez-Morillo, Ivón M., Tapia-Muñoz, José L., Cetzal-Ix, William & Romero-González, Gustavo A., 2023, Phylogenetics and historical biogeography of Encyclia (Laeliinae: Orchidaceae) with an emphasis on the E. adenocarpos complex, a new species, and a preliminary species list for the genus, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 23 (1), pp. 41-75 : 51

Encyclia preliminary species list

The resulting preliminary species list represents our assessment of Encyclia diversity and distribution, as well as of the taxa tentatively accepted by us ( Table S1). Our listing accounts for 213 Encyclia taxa of which 178 are formally proposed species and another 10 will be formally proposed soon as new. Furthermore, there are 25 nothotaxa (some formally described and others of known parentage yet to be formally proposed). There are additional wild or cultivated Encyclia morphotypes known to the authors of which we have no material or reliable data to properly assess their status and have thus not been included in the species list. Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 feature a sample of the floral diversity of Encyclia . There are species from all major areas and clades. Species are in alphabetical order for ease of finding, and many of the photographs are cited in the text. Typification and taxonomic issues are beyond the scope of this contribution and will be the subject of a formal checklist that is currently being prepared (Tamayo-Cen et al., in prep).

Table 3 features the number of taxa in each of the major biogeographical areas previously defined here. The total number of taxa reported in the Table S1 is larger than the figure for known species because a few species (e.g., Encyclia chloroleuca , E. cordigera , E. stellata , etc.) are shared between two or more of these broad biogeographical regions. The northern hemisphere concentrates more than half of the species of the genus with 167 taxa, whereas there are 54 in the southern hemisphere. The most species-rich biogeographical areas are Megamexico (61 taxa), the Antilles (57 taxa), and Eastern South America (35 taxa). There are fewer known species in Northern South America (27 taxa), Amazon Basin (18 taxa), Andes (14 taxa), and the Central America Isthmus (13 taxa).