# Dimerandra

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{{Short description|Genus of orchids}}
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| taxon = Dimerandra
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'''''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](/source/genus) of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s from the orchid family, [Orchidaceae](/source/Orchidaceae). The group is found across tropical America: southern Mexico (as far north as [Veracruz](/source/Veracruz)), Central America, the [West Indies](/source/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](/source/Dimerandra_buenaventurae)'' <small>[Kraenzl.](/source/Kraenzl.) [Siegerist](/source/Emily_Steffan_Siegerist) (1986)</small> - Colombia
# ''[Dmd.&nbsp;carnosiflora](/source/Dimerandra_carnosiflora)'' <small> [Siegerist](/source/Emily_Steffan_Siegerist) (1986)</small> - Brazil, Peru
# ''[Dmd.&nbsp;elegans](/source/Dimerandra_elegans)'' <small> ([Focke](/source/Wilhelm_Olbers_Focke)) [Siegerist](/source/Emily_Steffan_Siegerist) (1986)</small> - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, northern Brazil, Trinidad, Suriname, Guyana, French Guinea 
# ''[Dmd.&nbsp;emarginata](/source/Dimerandra_emarginata)'' <small> ([G.Mey.](/source/G.Mey.)) [Hoehne](/source/Frederico_Carlos_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](/source/Dimerandra_latipetala)'' <small> [Siegerist](/source/Emily_Steffan_Siegerist) (1986)</small> - Colombia, Central America
# ''[Dmd.&nbsp;rimbachii](/source/Dimerandra_rimbachii)'' <small> ([Schltr.](/source/Schltr.)) [Schltr.](/source/Schltr.) (1922)</small> - Ecuador
# ''[Dmd.&nbsp;stenopetala](/source/Dimerandra_stenopetala)'' <small> ([Hook.](/source/Hook.)) [Schltr.](/source/Schltr.) (1922)</small> 2''n''&nbsp;=&nbsp;40<ref name="onlinelibrary.wiley.com"/> - Jamaica, Trinidad, northern South America
# ''[Dmd.&nbsp;tarapotana](/source/Dimerandra_tarapotana)'' <small> [Dodson](/source/Calaway_H._Dodson) & [D.E.Benn.](/source/D.E.Benn.) (1989)</small> - Peru

== See also ==
* [List of Orchidaceae genera](/source/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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