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Prosthechea garciana; photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAArne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons

Prosthechea garciana (Garay & Dunst.) W.E.Higgins

Orchidaceae · Venezuela

No habitat climate
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Prosthechea garciana, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsProsthechea garciana, photograph Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsProsthechea garciana, photograph Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsProsthechea garciana, photograph Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsProsthechea garciana, photograph Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsProsthechea garciana, photograph Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

About the genus · Prosthechea

Prosthechea is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). The name is derived from the Greek word prostheke (appendix), referring to the appendage on the back of the column. Appendage orchid is a common name for this genus. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Prosthechea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 2 of the 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeVenezuela · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker11.267, -69.633 · in the densest population, 3 records (75% of those in range)
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 8 km away. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons; Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Prosthechea 53 in the reference

Prosthechea abbreviata Prosthechea abbreviata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Andrey LoriaProsthechea aemula Prosthechea aemula Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Brian GratwickeProsthechea baculus Prosthechea baculus Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedProsthechea boothiana Prosthechea boothiana Dollar orchid Photo: CC BY-SA, Jalil R. Prosthechea brachiata Orchidaceae Prosthechea brassavolae Prosthechea brassavolae Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Letizia WeichgrebeProsthechea bulbosa Prosthechea bulbosa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Rafael SilvaProsthechea campylostalix Prosthechea campylostalix Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Melvin BakerProsthechea chacaoensis Prosthechea chacaoensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezProsthechea chimborazoensis Prosthechea chimborazoensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Letizia WeichgrebeProsthechea chondylobulbon Prosthechea chondylobulbon Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezProsthechea citrina Prosthechea citrina Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Alberto Alcalá all 54 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Anacheilium garcianum; Encyclia garciana; Epidendrum garcianum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Garay & Dunst.) W.E.Higgins
Native to
Venezuela
Wild records
4 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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