Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Coelogyneae is a member of the Subfamily Epidendroideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Coelogyneae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Liliopsida
Scopoli, 1760 - Monocotyledons
- Subclass: Liliidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Lilianae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Amaryllidales
Bromhead, 1840
- Family: Hyacinthaceae
(gal-TOH-nee-uh)
Batsch Ex Borckhausen, 1797
- Subfamily: Epidendroideae
- Tribe: Coelogyneae
- Subfamily: Epidendroideae
- Family: Hyacinthaceae
(gal-TOH-nee-uh)
Batsch Ex Borckhausen, 1797
- Order: Amaryllidales
Bromhead, 1840
- Superorder: Lilianae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Liliidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Liliopsida
Scopoli, 1760 - Monocotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Coelogyneae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (7): Bakerara · Banfieldara · Chirita · Collabium · Daubenya · Elegia · Galanthus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 18 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Coelogyneae.
Genera
Bakerara
? Bakerara, abbreviated Bak. in the horticultural trade, is the nothogenus for intergeneric hybrids between the orchid genera Brassia, Miltonia and Odontoglossum (Brs. x Milt. x Odm. x Onc.). [more]
Banfieldara
Chirita
Chirita is an Old World genus of the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. There are currently about 150 species recognised in the genus, about 100 of which are endemic to China. Most of the species have showy flowers and are becoming increasingly popular as houseplants, much like their cousins the African violets. [more]
Collabium
Daubenya
Elegia
A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]
Galanthus
Galanthus (Snowdrop; Greek g?la "milk", ?nthos "flower") is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. Most flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but certain species flower in early spring and late autumn. [more]
At least 594 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Galanthus.
More info about the Genus Galanthus may be found here.
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