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Checklist of Orchidaceae from Caquetá, Colombia

2023; Pensoft Publishers; Volume: 229; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3897/phytokeys.229.102737

1314-2011

Tatiana Arias, Jeisson Chaux-Varela, Maria del Pilar Camero, R. Alexis Calderón Álvarez, Anyi Carolina Trujillo, MARCO A. CORREA–MUNERA, Alejandro Zuluaga, Oscar Perdomo, Oscar A. Pérez‐Escobar, Edwin Trujillo Trujillo, Janice Valencia-D,

Fern and Epiphyte Biology

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.