Biology:Sotoa
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Short description: Genus of orchids
| Sotoa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Tribe: | Cranichideae |
| Subtribe: | Spiranthinae |
| Genus: | Sotoa Salazar |
| Species: | S. confusa
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| Binomial name | |
| Sotoa confusa (Garay) Salazar
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Sotoa is a genus of orchid, a relatively new genus described in 2010. It is native to western Texas and to Mexico as far south as Oaxaca. Only one species is known, Sotoa confusa.[1][2][3]
Sotoa confusa is very rare in Texas . It was collected in 1931 in the Chisos Mountains inside Big Bend National Park, the specimens at the time misidentified as Spiranthes durangensis (now a synonym of Schiedeella saltensis).[4] The material was not recognized as a distinct taxon until years later.[3] It was not until 2008 that a live population was discovered.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Sotoa confusa
- ↑ Salazar, Gerardo A. & Claudia Ballesteros-Ballera. 2010. Sotoa, a new genus of Spiranthinae (Orchidaceae) from Mexico and the southern United States. Lankesteriana : la revista científica del Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica 9: 491-504.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Flora of North America, v 26 p 523, Deiregyne confusa Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 283, plate 18C. 1982.
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, synonymy for Schiedeella saltensis
- ↑ Betty Alex. 2008. Betty Alex’s Five Favorites from Big Bend National Park. Chihuahuan Desert Discovery 2008 54(1):7-52.[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
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