| Hemipilia tominagae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Genus: | Hemipilia |
| Species: | H. tominagae |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemipilia tominagae (Hayata) Y.Tang & H.Peng | |
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Hemipilia tominagae is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae, native to Taiwan. [1]
The species was first described by Bunzō Hayata in 1916 as Gymnadenia tominagae. [2] Hayata stated that the plant he described was collected by T. Tominaga. He spelt the specific epithet as "tominagai", [3] and this spelling has been used by some subsequent authors when transferring the species to a different genus. [4] However, the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants requires names not published in a form specified by the code to be corrected to conform to it, and personal names ending in "-a", even if the person is a man, should have an epithet in the genitive case formed by adding "-e". [5] The epithet is thus correctly spelt "tominagae". [2] [4]
The species has been transferred to several genera: to Amitostigma, to Orchis , Ponerorchis, and now to Hemipilia . Several other species have been brought into synonymy with Hemipilia tominagae.
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