Barkeria is a genus of orchids originating from Mexico, comprising about 15 species. This genus was once considered part of Epidendrum. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Jump to: navigation, search Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepaticophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Jump to: navigation, search Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ... Families Thismiaceae Orchidaceae - Orchids The Orchidales used to be divided into the following families: Thismiaceae : is now considered a sister to and included in the family Burmanniaceae, which belongs to another order Dioscoreales. ... Jump to: navigation, search Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ... Tribes See text The Epidendroideae, or epidendroid orchids, are a subfamily of the orchid family (Orchidaceae). ... Orchid re-directs here; for alternate uses see Orchid (disambiguation) Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ... There are several people named Knowles: Beyoncé Knowles Sir James Knowles John Knowles James Sheridan Knowles Solange Knowles Tony Knowles, snooker player Tony Knowles, politician Stanley Knowles Christopher Knowles Paul John Knowles There are also places called Knowles: Knowles, Oklahoma This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... Orchid re-directs here; for alternate uses see Orchid (disambiguation) Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ... Jump to: navigation, search In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. ... Species ? Epidendrum is a large and very varied genus of the the Orchid Family; some authors refer to it as a mega-genus. ...

These are deciduous orchids, which drop their leaves in early winter. They are found in dry scrub areas of Mesoamerica at intermediate elevations. Deciduous means falling off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... Scrub has a number of meanings: to rub a surface hard, especially with a brush; low lying vegetation. ... Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. ...