genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s from the orchid family,
Orchidaceae
Orchids are plants that belong to the family (biology), family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan plants that ...
. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
This genus contains many species that were previously assigned to ''
Oncidium
''Oncidium'', abbreviated as Onc. in the horticultural trade, is a genus that, , contains about 340 species of orchids from the subtribe Oncidiinae of the orchid family Orchidaceae. It is distributed across tropical and subtropical America from ...
''.
Species include:
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Gomesa adamantina
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa albinoi'' (Schltr.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa alpina'' Porsch (1908)
# '' Gomesa barbaceniae'' (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa barbata'' (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa barkeri'' (Hook.) Rolfe (1901)
# '' Gomesa bicolor'' (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa bifolia'' (Sims) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa blanchetii'' (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa bohnkiana'' (V.P.Castro & G.F.Carr) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa brasiliensis'' (Rolfe) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa brieniana'' (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
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Gomesa caldensis
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa calimaniana'' (Guiard) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa carlosregentii'' Lückel (2010)
# '' Gomesa chapadensis'' (V.P.Castro & Campacci) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
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Gomesa chrysoptera
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa chrysopterantha
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa ciliata
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa cogniauxiana
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa colorata
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa concolor
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa cornigera
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa crispa
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa croesus
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa cruciata
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa culuenensis
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa cuneata'' (Scheidw.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa damacenoi'' (Chiron & V.P.Castro) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa dasytyle'' (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa discifera'' (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa divaricata'' Hoffmanns. ex Schltr. (1926)
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Gomesa doeringii
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa doniana'' (Bateman ex W.H.Baxter) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa duseniana'' Kraenzl. (1921)
# '' Gomesa echinata'' (Barb.Rodr.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa edmundoi'' (Pabst) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa eleutherosepala'' (Barb.Rodr.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa emiliana'' H.Barbosa (1920)
# '' Gomesa emilii'' (Schltr.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa fischeri'' Regel (1856)
# '' Gomesa flexuosa'' (Lodd.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa foliosa'' (Hook.) Klotzsch ex Rchb.f. (1852)
# '' Gomesa forbesii'' (Hook.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa fuscans'' (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa fuscopetala'' (Hoehne) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa gardneri'' (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa gilva'' (Vell.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa glaziovii'' Cogn. (1905)
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Gomesa gomezoides
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa gracilis'' (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa gravesiana'' (Rolfe) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa gutfreundiana'' (Chiron & V.P.Castro) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa handroi'' (Hoehne) Pabst (1967)
# '' Gomesa herzogii'' (Schltr.) Lückel (2010)
# '' Gomesa hookeri'' (Rolfe) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
# '' Gomesa hydrophila'' (Barb.Rodr.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
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Gomesa imperatoris-maximiliani
''Gomesa imperatoris-maximiliani'' is a species of orchid endemic to eastern and southern Brazil. It was formerly within the genus ''Oncidium'' until a phylogenetic study published in 2009 transferred it and some other ''Oncidium'' species to ''G ...
Gomesa salesopolitana
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa sarcodes'' (Lindl.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009)
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Gomesa × amicta
''Gomesa × amicta'' is a hybrid of orchid endemic to southeastern Brazil. It is a hybrid of ''Gomesa lietzei'' and ''Gomesa sarcodes''. It was formerly within the genus ''Oncidium'' until a phylogenetic study published in 2009 transferred it a ...
Gomesa × colnagoi
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomesa forbesii'' × '' Gomesa zappii'')
# '' Gomesa × lita'' (Rchb.f.) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams (2009) = ('' Gomes forbesii'' × ''
Gomesa imperatoris-maximiliani
''Gomesa imperatoris-maximiliani'' is a species of orchid endemic to eastern and southern Brazil. It was formerly within the genus ''Oncidium'' until a phylogenetic study published in 2009 transferred it and some other ''Oncidium'' species to ''G ...
'')
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Gomesa × scullyi
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomes gardneri'' × '' Gomesa gravesiana'')
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Gomesa × terassaniana
''Gomesa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains about 80–100 species, all native to South America. The genus is abbreviated as ''Gom''.Gomes blanchetii'' × '' Gomesa sarcodes'')
See also
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List of Orchidaceae genera
This is a list of genera in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), originally according tThe Families of Flowering Plants- L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz. This list is adapted regularly with the changes published in the ''Orchid Research Newsletter'' which ...
References
* (1815) Botanical Magazine 42: t. 1748.
* 2005. ''Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee''. Ulmer, Stuttgart
* (2009). Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 271 ff. Oxford University Press.
* (2009) Floral convergence in Oncidiinae (Cymbidieae; Orchidaceae): an expanded concept of Gomesa and a new genus Nohawilliamsia, Annals of Botany, 104 (3): 387–402.