Genus of orchids
Rhynchostele is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to Mexico, Central America and Venezuela.[2][3][4]
The genus name is abbreviated as Rst. in the horticultural trade.
Species
At the present time (May 2014), 19 species are accepted.[2][5][6]
- Rhynchostele aptera (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Durango to Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele bictoniensis (Bateman) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Oaxaca to Panama
- Rhynchostele candidula (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele cervantesii (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele cervantesii subsp. cervantesii - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele cervantesii subsp. halbingeriana Soto Arenas & Hágsater - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele cervantesii subsp. membranacea (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele cordata (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Puebla to Costa Rica, plus Venezuela
- Rhynchostele ehrenbergii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Hidalgo to Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele galeottiana (A.Rich.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele hortensiae (R.L.Rodr.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Costa Rica
- Rhynchostele × humeana (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele londesboroughiana (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Guerrero
- Rhynchostele maculata (Lex.) Soto Arenas & Salazar
- Rhynchostele maculata subsp. maculata - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele maculata subsp. oestlundiana (L.O.Williams) Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez - from Veracruz to Costa Rica
- Rhynchostele maculata f. perotensis Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez - Veracruz, Puebla
- Rhynchostele madrensis (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Oaxaca
- Rhynchostele majalis (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Tabasco to Guatemala
- Rhynchostele oscarii Archila - Guatemala
- Rhynchostele pygmaea (Lindl.) Rchb.f. - Guatemala and Chiapas
- Rhynchostele rossii (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Querétaro to Nicaragua
- Rhynchostele stellata (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - from Chiapas to Costa Rica, plus Venezuela
- Rhynchostele uroskinneri (Lindl.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - Guatemala and Chiapas
- Rhynchostele × vexativa (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas & Salazar - collected somewhere in Mexico c 1875, now probably extinct