Orchid Collection Herbarium of Honduras TEFH

Abstract

The “Cyril Hardy Nelson-Sutherland” Herbarium (TEFH), up to October, 2006, has a collection of 251 species of orchids, five of which are not from Honduras. Notable among them is Mormodes ephippilabia, endemic; also, two collections of Salvador Calderón from El Salvador from the year 1923, which represent the oldest specimens of the collection. Notable also are the collections of J.B. Edwards from Honduras, which were made between 1931 and 1934, and are the oldest collections from Honduras in TEFH. The herbarium has 17 genera and 76 species which Antonio Molina R. does not mention in his enumeration of the plants of Honduras in 1975.

Key words: Collection; endemism; exsiccatae; new records

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/ceiba.v48i1-2.312

Ceiba, 2007. Volumen 48(1-2):11-59