{{Short description|Genus of orchids}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Dimerandra emarginata.jpg | image_caption = ''Dimerandra emarginata'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Dimerandra | authority = Schltr. }}

'''''Dimerandra''''', abbreviated Dmd. in the horticultural trade,<ref>http://www.rhs.org.uk/RHSWebsite/files/87/87be8b1e-908e-4e04-9ee6-30c438354458.pdf{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The group is found across tropical America: southern Mexico (as far north as Veracruz), Central America, the West Indies and northern South America.<ref name="lklk"/>

== Species == Kew, in its World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, has accepted 8 species in this genus:<ref name="lklk">search for ''Dimerandra'' on http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do</ref>

# ''Dmd.&nbsp;buenaventurae'' <small>Kraenzl. Siegerist (1986)</small> - Colombia # ''Dmd.&nbsp;carnosiflora'' <small> Siegerist (1986)</small> - Brazil, Peru # ''Dmd.&nbsp;elegans'' <small> (Focke) Siegerist (1986)</small> - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, northern Brazil, Trinidad, Suriname, Guyana, French Guinea # ''Dmd.&nbsp;emarginata'' <small> (G.Mey.) Hoehne (1934)</small> 2''n''&nbsp;=&nbsp;40<ref name="onlinelibrary.wiley.com">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</ref> - southern Mexico, Central America, Trinidad, northern South America # ''Dmd.&nbsp;latipetala'' <small> Siegerist (1986)</small> - Colombia, Central America # ''Dmd.&nbsp;rimbachii'' <small> (Schltr.) Schltr. (1922)</small> - Ecuador # ''Dmd.&nbsp;stenopetala'' <small> (Hook.) Schltr. (1922)</small> 2''n''&nbsp;=&nbsp;40<ref name="onlinelibrary.wiley.com"/> - Jamaica, Trinidad, northern South America # ''Dmd.&nbsp;tarapotana'' <small> Dodson & D.E.Benn. (1989)</small> - Peru

== See also == * List of Orchidaceae genera

== References and external links == {{Reflist}} * Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (1999). Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press. * Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2001). Genera Orchidacearum 2. Oxford Univ. Press. * Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3. Oxford Univ. Press * Berg Pana, H. 2005. ''Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee''. Ulmer, Stuttgart

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