Ponerorchis capitata

Ponerorchis capitata (synonym Amitostigma capitatum) is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae.[2] It is endemic to China, known only from Sichuan and Hubei.[3][1] It produces white flowers.[4]

Ponerorchis capitata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Ponerorchis
Species:
P. capitata
Binomial name
Ponerorchis capitata
(Tang & F.T.Wang) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin[2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Amitostigma capitatum Tang & F.T.Wang

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1936 by Tsin Tang and Fa Tsuan Wang, as Amitostigma capitatum.[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 this species becoming Ponerorchis capitata.[5]

References

  1. China Plant Specialist Group. 2004. Amitostigma capitatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004. Downloaded on 10 September 2015.
  2. "Ponerorchis capitata", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-03-17
  3. Flora of China v 25 p 128, 头序无柱兰 tou xu wu zhu lan, Amitostigma capitatum
  4. Amitostigma capitatum. Flora of China.
  5. 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


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