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Quekettia (in honor of E. J. Quekett). Orchida- ceae. Small epiphytic plants: lvs. terete, fleshy: scape filiform, branched: fls. small; sepals and petals similar, linear; lip erect from foot of column, about as long as sepals, entire, hollowed at base; column erect, with 2 recurved appendages at apex; anther terminal, incumbent; pollinia 2, waxy, ovoid, upon linear stalks.— About 6 species known, all Brazilian. Related to Ada; little known horticulturally. George V. Nash.
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Quekettia (in honor of E. J. Quekett). Orchidaceae. Small epiphytic plants: lvs. terete, fleshy: scape filiform, branched: fls. small; sepals and petals similar, linear; lip erect from foot of column, about as long as sepals, entire, hollowed at base; column erect, with 2 recurved appendages at apex; anther terminal, incumbent; pollinia 2, waxy, ovoid, upon linear stalks.— About 6 species known, all Brazilian. Related to Ada; little known horticulturally. George V. Nash.
 
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==Cultivation==
| color = pink
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| name = ''Quekettia''
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| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
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===Propagation===
| phylum = [[Arthropoda]]
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| classis = [[Arachnida]]
 
| ordo = [[Spider|Araneae]]
 
| familia = [[Salticidae]]
 
| genus = '''''Quekettia'''''
 
| genus_authority = [[George and Elizabeth Peckham|Peckham & Peckham]], 1902
 
| subdivision_ranks = Species
 
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'''''Quekettia''''' is a [[spider]] [[genus (biology)|genus]] of the [[Salticidae]] family (jumping
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===Pests and diseases===
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==Species==
 
==Species==
* ''Quekettia georgius'' (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) (Madagascar)
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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==External links==
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[[Category:Salticidae]]
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Read about Quekettia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Quekettia (in honor of E. J. Quekett). Orchidaceae. Small epiphytic plants: lvs. terete, fleshy: scape filiform, branched: fls. small; sepals and petals similar, linear; lip erect from foot of column, about as long as sepals, entire, hollowed at base; column erect, with 2 recurved appendages at apex; anther terminal, incumbent; pollinia 2, waxy, ovoid, upon linear stalks.— About 6 species known, all Brazilian. Related to Ada; little known horticulturally. George V. Nash.


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