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The genus Prosthechea is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Prosthechea

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Prosthechea abbreviata (Schltr.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea aemula (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea alagoensis (Pabst) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea allemanii (Barb.Rodr.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea allemanoides (Hoehne) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea aloisii (Schltr.) Dodson & Hágsater	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea apuahuensis (Mansf.) M.E.Berg	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea arminii (Rchb.f.) Withner & P.A.Harding	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea baculus (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea barbozae Pupulin	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea bennettii (Christenson) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea bicamerata (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea bohnkiana V.P.Castro & G.F.Carr	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea boothiana (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea borsiana (Campacci) Campacci	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea brachiata (A.Rich. & Galeotti) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea brachychila (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea brassavolae (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea bueraremensis (Campacci) Campacci	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea bulbosa (Vell.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea caetensis (Bicalho) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea calamaria (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea campos-portoi (Pabst) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea campylostalix (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea carrii V.P.Castro & Campacci	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea chacaoensis (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea chondylobulbon (A.Rich. & Galeotti) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea christyana (Rchb.f.) Garay & Withner	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea citrina (Lex.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea cochleata (L.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea concolor (Lex.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea cretacea (Dressler & G.E.Pollard) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea ebanii Chiron & V.P.Castro	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea elisae Chiron & V.P.Castro	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea faresiana (Bicalho) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea farfanii Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea fausta (Rchb.f. ex Cogn.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea favoris (Rchb.f.) Salazar & Soto Arenas	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea fortunae (Dressler) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea fragrans (Sw.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea fuertesii (Cogn.) Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea garciana (Garay & Dunst.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea ghiesbreghtiana (A.Rich. & Galeotti) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea gilbertoi (Garay) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea glauca Knowles & Westc.	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea glumacea (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea grammatoglossa (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea greenwoodiana (Aguirre-Olav.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea guttata (Schltr.) Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea hajekii D.E.Benn. & Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea hartwegii (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea hastata (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea ionocentra (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea ionophlebia (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea jauana (Carnevali & I.Ramírez) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea joaquingarciana Pupulin	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea kautzkii (Pabst) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea lambda (Linden & Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea latro (Rchb.f. ex Cogn.) V.P.Castro & Chiron	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea leopardina (Rchb.f.) Dodson & Hágsater	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea lindenii (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea linkiana (Klotzsch) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea livida (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea macrothyrsodes (Rchb.f.) Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea magnispatha (Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea mariae (Ames) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea megahybos (Schltr.) Dodson & Hágsater	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea michuacana (Lex.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea moojenii (Pabst) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea mulasii Soto Arenas & L.Cerv.	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea neglecta Pupulin	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea neurosa (Ames) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea obpiribulbon (Hágsater) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea ochracea (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea ochrantha (A.Rich.) ined.	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea ortizii (Dressler) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea pamplonensis (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea panthera (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea papilio (Vell.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea pastoris (Lex.) Espejo & López-Ferr.	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea pringlei (Rolfe) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea prismatocarpa (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea pterocarpa (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea pulcherrima (Klotzsch) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea pulchra Dodson & W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea punctifera (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea pygmaea (Hook.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea racemifera (Dressler) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea radiata (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea regentii V.P.Castro & Chiron	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea regnelliana (Hoehne & Schltr.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea rhombilabia (S.Rosillo) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea rhynchophora (A.Rich. & Galeotti) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea roraimensis V.P.Castro & Campacci	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea sceptra (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea semiaperta (Hágsater) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea serpentilingua Withner & D.G.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea serrulata (Sw.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea sessiliflora (Edwall) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea silvana Cath. & V.P.Castro	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea sima (Dressler) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea spondiada (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea suzanensis (Hoehne) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea tardiflora Mora-Ret. ex Pupulin	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea tigrina (Linden ex Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea tripunctata (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea trulla (Rchb.f.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea vagans (Ames) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea varicosa (Bateman ex Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea vasquezii Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea venezuelana (Schltr.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea vespa (Vell.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea vitellina (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP
Prosthechea widgrenii (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 143 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Prosthechea. Of these 114 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Prosthechea. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 143 species names for the genus Prosthechea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	114	79.7%
◕	Synonym	17	11.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	12	8.4%

All names

The status of the 151 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Prosthechea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	116	76.8%
◕	Synonym	23	15.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	12	7.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 143 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Prosthechea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	110	17	0	0	127	88.8%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	4	0	0	12	16	11.2%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Prosthechea, are as follows: