Scientific name Pescatoria Rank Genus | Higher classification Zygopetalinae | |
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Similar Orchids, Bollea, Kefersteinia, Huntleya, Cochleanthes |
Pescatoria semi hydroponic update
Pescatoria is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to Costa Rica, Panama, and northern South America.
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Pescatoria dayana a surprise spike
Species
The following species and nothospecies are accepted as of May 2014:

- Pescatoria backhousiana Rchb.f. - Ecuador
- Pescatoria × bella Rchb.f. - Colombia (P. coelestis × P. klabochorum)
- Pescatoria cerina (Lindl. & Paxton) Rchb.f. - Costa Rica, Panama
- Pescatoria cochlearis Rolfe - Ecuador
- Pescatoria coelestis (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Colombia
- Pescatoria coronaria Rchb.f. - Colombia
- Pescatoria dayana Rchb.f. - Colombia, Ecuador
- Pescatoria dormaniana Rchb.f. - Colombia
- Pescatoria ecuadorana (Dodson) Dressler - Ecuador
- Pescatoria fimbriata Regel - Colombia
- Pescatoria × gairiana Rchb.f. - Ecuador (P. klabochorum × P. lawrenceana)
- Pescatoria hemixantha (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Roraima, Guyana, Venezuela, possibly Suriname
- Pescatoria hirtzii (Waldv.) Dressler - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Pescatoria klabochorum Rchb.f. - Ecuador
- Pescatoria lalindei (Rchb.f.) Dressler ex P.A.Harding - Colombia
- Pescatoria lamellosa Rchb.f. - Colombia
- Pescatoria lawrenceana (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Colombia, Ecuador
- Pescatoria lehmannii Rchb.f. - Ecuador
- Pescatoria × pallens (Rchb.f.) P.A.Harding - Colombia
- Pescatoria pulvinaris (Rchb.f.) Dressler - Colombia
- Pescatoria russeliana Rchb.f. - Colombia
- Pescatoria schroederiana (Sander) Rolfe - Colombia
- Pescatoria triumphans Rchb.f. & Warsz. - Colombia
- Pescatoria violacea (Lindl.) Dressler - Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, northern Brazil
- Pescatoria wallisii Linden & Rchb.f. - Ecuador
- Pescatoria whitei (Rolfe) Dressler - Colombia

References
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