Species of flowering plant
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Lueckelia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae. The only species is Lueckelia breviloba (Summerh.) Jenny It is within the Tribe Cymbidieae and Subtribus of Stanhopeinae Benth. (1881).
The species is found in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.
The genus name of "Lueckelia" is in honour of Emil Lückel (b. 1927), a German botanist and taxonomist from Frankfurt, who was a specialist in orchids and president of the German Orchid Society. The genus has one known synonym of "Brasilocycnis" G.Gerlach &amp; Whitten
The Latin specific epithet of "breviloba" is made of two words; 'brevi-' from "brevis" meaning short and also 'loba' meaning lobe. Referring to the flower petals being short.
Both genus and species were first described and published in Austral. Orchid Rev. Vol.64 (Issue 4) on page 15 in 1999.
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