Quekettia

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Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Scientific Names



Read about Quekettia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

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
Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Quekettia
Peckham & Peckham, 1902

Species
see text

Quekettia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Species

  • Quekettia georgius (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) (Madagascar)