ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e102798
Checklist of Orchidaceae from Caquetá, Colombia
expand article infoTatiana Arias, Tatiana Arias, Jeisson Chaux-Varela§, Maria del Pilar Camero§, Ramón Alexis Calderón-Álvarez|, Angie Carolina Trujillo§, Marco A. Correa-Munera, Alejandro Zuluaga-Tróchez#, Oscar Perdomo¤, Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar«, Edwin Trujillo Trujillo¤, Janice Valencia-D.»
‡ Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, United States of America§ Departamento de Biología, Universidad de la Amazonia, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia, Florencia, Colombia| Departamento de Biología, Universidad de la Amazonia, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia and Grupo de Investigación en Ecología y Territorio, Departamento de Ecología y Territorio, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. D.C., Colombia, Florencia, Colombia¶ Jardín Botanico Uniamazonia and Herbario Enrique Forero – HUAZ, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia, Florencia, Colombia# Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia¤ University of the Amazonia, Florencia, Colombia« Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom» Max Planck Tandem Group, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
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Abstract

A checklist of Orchidaceae from Caquetá Colombia is presented here. We recorded 96 genera and 414 species, exceeding a previous inventory by 272 species. The checklist is conservative in the number of genera and species by including only taxa that were fully and reliably identified and that are either linked to a corresponding herbarium voucher, a living collection specimen, or a photo taken in the field and published at iNaturalist by one of the authors. The documented species diversity in the region could dramatically increase in the next few years with additional collecting efforts in the eastern slope of the Andes nested in Caquetá. About 9 % (414/4600) of all Orchidaceae species recorded for Colombia are reported for this area, showing the important role of Andean-Amazonian foothills and all other ecosystems of this region. 

Keywords
Alpha diversity, Amazon, Andes, floristic studies, orchids, Piedmont