Hexisea

Hexisea
Hexisea
Hexisea bidentata, Illustration.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Laeliinae
Alliance: Isochilus
Genus: Hexisea
Lindl.
Type species
Hexisea bidentata
Lindl.
Species
  • Hexisea bidentata
  • Hexisea imbricata

Hexisea is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae). The genera Costaricaea Schltr. and Euothonaea Rchb.f. are synonyms of Hexisea. This genus is abbreviated Hxsa in trade journals.

Synonymy

At the urging of Dressler, Hexisea has been reduced to synonoymy under Scaphyglottis, over which Hexisea has priority.[1] The Hexisea page is conserved here because Dressler's proposal stated, in part: "...those who so wish may retain Hexisea in any circumscription that excludes S.  graminifolia (the type of Scaphyglottis; see Dressler in Taxon 9:214. 1960)..."

Footnotes

  1. ^ Dressler. "Proposal to conserve Scaphyglottis against Hexisea (Orchidaceae)" TAXON 43(1994)665-666