| Hemipilia faberi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Genus: | Hemipilia |
| Species: | H. faberi |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemipilia faberi (Rolfe) Y.Tang & H.Peng | |
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Hemipilia faberi is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to south-central China (Sichuan, north-western Yunnan, north-eastern Guizhou). [1]
The species was first described by Robert Allen Rolfe in 1982 as Habenaria faberi, although he later transferred it to Gymnadenia . It was later transferred again to Amitostigma. [2] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014 found that species of Amitostigma, Neottianthe and Ponerorchis were mixed together in a single clade, making none of the three genera monophyletic as then circumscribed. Amitostigma and Neottianthe were subsumed into Ponerorchis, with Amitostigma faberi then becoming Ponerorchis faberi. [3] The genus Ponerorchis has since been synonymized with the genus Hemipilia, resulting in the present name.