Check List 20(4): 950-961, doi: 10.15560/20.4.950
Conservation assessment of five new records for the Orchidaceae of Colombia
Oscar Perdomo‡, Alejandro Zuluaga§, Edwin Trujillo-Trujillo|‡ Universidad de Boyacá, Tunja, Colombia§ Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia| Universidad de la Amazonia, Florencia, Colombia
Corresponding author: Oscar Perdomo ( oscarperdomo79@hotmail.com ) Academic editor: Rosa del C. Ortiz © Oscar Perdomo, Alejandro Zuluaga, Edwin Trujillo-Trujillo. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Perdomo O, Zuluaga A, Trujillo-Trujillo E (2024) Conservation assessment of five new records for the Orchidaceae of Colombia. Check List 20(4): 950-961. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.4.950 |  |
Abstract
Following the IUCN criteria, we assess the risk of extinction for five orchid species recorded for the first time from Colombia: Acianthera viridis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer, Dichaea lankesteri Ames, Epidendrum lavendulum Hágsater, Masdevallia ariasii Luer, and Stenia stenioides (Garay) Dodson & R.Escobar. We propose a preliminary global Red List categories of Endangered, Least Concern, Endangered, Vulnerable, and Least Concern, respectively, for these species. The main threats of these orchids are habitat degradation, small and degraded AOO and EOO, and a small number of known populations. The Caraño river basin, where these species occur in Colombia, is an important site for orchid conservation. Consequently, strategies are needed to ensure its preservation.
Keywords
Andes, Caquetá, Caraño, cloud forest, orchids