Sotoa

{{Short description|Genus of orchids}} {{Speciesbox | image = | display_parents = 4 | genus = Sotoa | parent_authority = Salazar | species = confusa | authority = (Garay) Salazar | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WCSP"/> | synonyms = * ''Deiregyne confusa'' Garay * ''Funkiella durangensis'' subsp. ''confusa'' (Garay) Szlach. * ''Spiranthes confusa'' (Garay) Kartesz & Gandhi * ''Schiedeella confusa'' (Garay) Espejo & López-Ferr. * ''Funkiella confusa'' (Garay) Szlach. }}

'''''Sotoa''''' is a genus of orchid, a relatively new genus described in 2010. It is native to western Texas and to Mexico as far south as Oaxaca. Only one species is known, '''''Sotoa confusa'''''.<ref name="WCSP">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=461826 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, ''Sotoa confusa'']</ref><ref>[http://www.ibiologia.unam.mx/pdf/directorio/s/salazar/sotoa_salazar_ballesteros.pdf Salazar, Gerardo A. & Claudia Ballesteros-Ballera. 2010. ''Sotoa'', a new genus of Spiranthinae (Orchidaceae) from Mexico and the southern United States. Lankesteriana : la revista científica del Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica 9: 491-504].</ref><ref name="cherilyn">[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101562 Flora of North America, v 26 p 523, ''Deiregyne confusa'' Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 283, plate 18C. 1982. ]</ref>

''Sotoa confusa'' is very rare in Texas. It was collected in 1931 in the Chisos Mountains inside Big Bend National Park, the specimens at the time misidentified as ''Spiranthes durangensis'' (now a synonym of ''Schiedeella saltensis'').<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=187827 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, synonymy for ''Schiedeella saltensis'']</ref> The material was not recognized as a distinct taxon until years later.<ref name="cherilyn"/> It was not until 2008 that a live population was discovered.<ref>[http://cdri.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/Fave-Five-Plants-2008.pdf Betty Alex. 2008. Betty Alex’s Five Favorites from Big Bend National Park. Chihuahuan Desert Discovery 2008 54(1):7-52.]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

== See also == * List of Orchidaceae genera

== References == {{Wikispecies}} {{Reflist}}

Category:Orchids of Mexico Category:Flora of Texas Category:Orchids of the United States Category:Monotypic Orchidoideae genera Category:Cranichideae genera Category:Spiranthinae Category:Big Bend National Park Category:Taxa named by Leslie Andrew Garay