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Caularthron

Genus of orchids

Caularthron Raf. (1837), abbreviated Cau. in the horticultural trade, is a genus of orchids with 4 species. They are epiphytic orchids with specialized hollow pseudobulbs that house ants. The genus is exclusively found in the tropical regions of southern Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and northern South America.

List of species

Species accepted as of May 2014:

Image	Name	Distribution	Elevation (m)
	Caularthron amazonicum (Schltr.) H.G.Jones (1968)	Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil
[[File:Caularthron bicornutum - fl.jpg	120px]]	Caularthron bicornutum (Hook.) Raf. (1837) 2n = 40, n = 20.	Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, Colombia
[[File:Bilamellatum.jpg	120px]]	Caularthron bilamellatum (Rchb.f.) R.E.Schult. (1958)	Belize, Central America, northern South America (Roraima, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador), Trinidad, Chiapas	0 - 700
	Caularthron kraenzlinianum H.G.Jones (1980)	Windward Islands

References

http://www.rhs.org.uk/RHSWebsite/files/87/87be8b1e-908e-4e04-9ee6-30c438354458.pdf{{dead link. (November 2016)
Information retrieved from http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do on October 3, 2010, after entering "Caularthron".
[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=36217 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
page 251 of Leonardo P. Felix and Marcelo Guerra: "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)" ''Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'' '''163'''(2010)234-278. The Linnean Society of London. downloaded October 2010 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x/pdf

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