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Plectrelminthus

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2021
Entity authorityQ3906285 ↗
Source-derived summary

Plectrelminthus is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Only one species is currently accepted, Plectrelminthus caudatus, though two varieties are recognized (as of June 2014):

Plectrelminthus caudatus var. caudatus - western and central Africa from Sierra Leone to Congo-Kinshasa

Plectrelminthus caudatus var. trilobatus Szlach. & Olszewski - Cameroon, Central African Republic

See also

List of Orchidaceae genera

References

Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee.

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“Plectrelminthus” enters the record as genus of plants. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Plectrelminthus, genus and plants can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Plectrelminthus, genus and plants.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q3906285. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Plectrelminthus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.