Hemipilia farreri

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Hemipilia farreri
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Hemipilia
Species:
H. farreri
Binomial name
Hemipilia farreri
(Schltr.) Y.Tang & H.Peng
Synonyms
  • Amitostigma farreriSchltr.
  • Orchis farreri(Schltr.) Soó
  • Ponerorchis farreri(Schltr.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin

Hemipilia farreri is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is endemic to China, where it is found from south-eastern Tibet to north-western Yunnan. [1]

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1924 by Rudolf Schlechter, as Amitostigma farreri. [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 farreri then becoming Ponerorchis farreri. [3] The genus Ponerorchis has since been synonymized with the genus Hemipilia, resulting in the present name.

References

  1. "Hemipilia farreri (Schltr.) Y.Tang & H.Peng | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  2. "Ponerorchis farreri", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families , Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , retrieved 2018-03-25
  3. Jin, Wei-Tao; Jin, Xiao-Hua; Schuiteman, André; Li, De-Zhu; Xiang, Xiao-Guo; Huang, Wei-Chang; Li, Jian-Wu & Huang, Lu-Qi (2014), "Molecular systematics of subtribe Orchidinae and Asian taxa of Habenariinae (Orchideae, Orchidaceae) based on plastid matK, rbcL and nuclear ITS", Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 77: 41–53, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.004, PMID   24747003