%0 Journal Article %T O g¨ºnero Encyclia (Orchidaceae) no Distrito Federal, Goi¨¢s e Tocantins %A Meneguzzo %A Thiago E.C. %A Bianchetti %A Luciano B. %A Proen£¿a %A Carolyn E.B. %J Rodrigu¨¦sia %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S2175-78602012000200004 %X six species of the genus encyclia are accepted in the distrito federal, goi¨¢s and tocantins (brazil): e. argentinensis, e. chapadensis, e. cyperifolia, e. gonzalezii, e. linearifolioides and e. osmantha. all the specimens were collected in the cerrado biome. in total 42 names were analyzed. two synonyms, four lectotypes and two epitypes are proposed. a name is presented as invalid, four are superfluous and four are "nomen nudum". thirteen names are excluded from treatment and twenty-one are presented as invalid and three are registered as a possible occurrence. %K cerrado biome %K flora %K neotropic %K orchidaceae %K taxonomy. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S2175-78602012000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en