Pteroceras viridiflorum (Thwaites) Holttum (1960:272)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Aerides viridiflora Thwaites in Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 430 (1864); Sarcochilus viridiflorus (Thwaites) Hook.f. in Fl. Brit. India 6: 38 (1890); Thrixspermum viridiflorum (Thwaites) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 682 (1891); Proteroceras holttumii J.Joseph & Vajr. in J. Indian Bot. Soc. 53: 189 (1974)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1923 (Wijesundara et al., 2020:152)
Since Rediscovered (Wijesundara et al., 2020:152)
Distribution & Habitat
Sri Lanka (& India?)
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
IUCN Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. (2007). The 2007 Red List of Threatened Fauna and Flora of Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka. xiii + 148 pp.
MOE (Ministry of Environment). (2012). The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka; Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora. Ministry of Environment, Colombo, Sri Lanka. viii + 476 pp.
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 7 July 2024]
Wijesundara, Siril, Ranasinghe, Subhani, Jayasinghe, Himesh, Gunawardena, Nadeeka, Fonseka, Gayani and Wijesooriya, Shivanthi. (2020). Angiosperms in Sri Lanka: Present status of Angiosperms in Sri Lanka, pp. 1-168. In: The National Red List 2020 - Conservation Status of the Flora of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka: Biodiversity Secretariat, Ministry of Environment and the National Herbarium, Department of National Botanic Gardens. xviii + 254 pp.