Bibliography on Prosthechea cochleata

Prosthechea cochleata, also known as black orchid is found in Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Leewards, Puerto Rica, Windwards, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and Colombia in dense tropical evergreen, deciduous and oak forests at altitudes up to 1900 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with smooth, ovoid to oblong-elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, imbricate, scarious sheaths with 2 to 3, apical, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below, basally clasping leaves and can bloom for 6 months starting in the spring with an apical, erect, short to 15" [to 37.5 cm], few to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with a basal sheath that has successive opening, non-fragrant to spicy scented flowers (Orchid species, n. d.).

According to (IARNA, n.d.) in Guatemala, P. cochleata can be found in Ala Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, El Progreso, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jutiapa, Peten, Quetzaltenango, Quiche, Retalhuleu, San Marcos, Suchitepequez and Zacapa. In the dry forest and humid forest at altitudes between 0-1800 msnm

PDF, Articles, Books on Prosthechea cochleata

BELTRÁN, M. and J. I. MARTÍNEZ
1996
Orquídeas medicinales en la flora cubana. Natura medicatrix. No. 43. Pages 42-43.

Available online:
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/4984144.pdf

BEUTELSPACHER, C. R. and I. MORENO
2014
Hallazgo de híbridos naturales entre Prosthechea cochleata (L.) W.E. Higgins y Prosthechea radiata (Lindl.) W.E. Higgins (Orchidaceae), en Chiapas, México. Lacadonia. Vol. 8, No. 1. Pages 51-56.

Available online:
http://cuid.unicach.mx/revistas/index.php/lacandonia/article/view/342/312

DEL MAZO, A. and A. DAMON
2006
Comparison of floral fragrance components of species of Encyclia and Prosthechea (Orchidaceae) from Soconusco, Southeast Mexico. Lankesteriana International Journal on Orchidology. Vol.6, No. 3. Pages 83-89

Available online:
www.redalyc.org/pdf/443/44339812001.pdf

DÍAZ, A., ABREU, N., MARTÍN, J. and G. M. SUÁREZ
2004
Hemípteros asociados a orquídeas silvestres. Fitosanidad. Vol. 8, No. 2. Pages 43-44.

Available online:
www.redalyc.org/pdf/2091/209117836011.pdf

MÓ, W., CETZAL, W., CARNEVALLI, G., PÉREZ, E. and S. BASU
2014
A new natural hybrid between Prosthechea cochleata and P. radiate (Orchidaceae) from Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Turkish Journal of Botany. No. 38. Pages 988-998.

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http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-14-38-5/bot-38-5-11-1312-86.pdf

MÓ, W., CETZAL, W., CARNEVALLI, G., PÉREZ, E. and S. BASU
2014
A new natural hybrid between Prosthechea cochleata and P. radiate (Orchidaceae) from Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Turkish Journal of Botany. No. 38. Pages 988-998.

Available online:
http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-14-38-5/bot-38-5-11-1312-86.pdf

ORTIZ, E. and J. D. ACKERMAN
1999
The cost of selfing in Ecyclia cochleata (Orchidaceae) Plant Systematics and Evolution. No. 219. Pages 55-64.

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www.researchgate.net/publication/248021629_The_Cost_of_Selfing_in_
Encyclia_Cochleata_Orchidaceae

RAMÍREZ, C. and G. CARNEVALI
2020
Flores nacionales de América: un recuento florístico. Desde el Herbario CICY 12: 194–204. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C.

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www.researchgate.net/publication/248021629_The_Cost_of_Selfing_in_
Encyclia_Cochleata_Orchidaceae