Ponerorchis yueana

Ponerorchis yueana (synonym Amitostigma yueanum) is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is endemic to China, known only from Sichuan and Yunnan.[2][1] It produces pink or white flowers.[3] The epithet is also spelt "yuana".

Ponerorchis yueana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Ponerorchis
Species:
P. yueana
Binomial name
Ponerorchis yueana
(Tang & F.T.Wang) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin[2][3]
Synonyms[2]
  • Amitostigma yueanum Tang & F.T.Wang
  • Amitostigma yuanum Tang & F.T.Wang, orth. var.
  • Ponerorchis yueana (Tang & F.T.Wang) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin, orth. var.

Taxonomy

As of March 2014, there are discrepancies in the spelling of the specific epithet. The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and the International Plant Names Index spell it "yueanum", noting that the original description used the form "yüanum".[2][4] The Flora of China and the authors who moved it to the genus Ponerorchis spell it "yuanum".[3][5] Other sources are divided between these two spellings.

The species was first described in 1912 by Tsin Tang and Fa Tsuan Wang, as Amitostigma yueanum.[4] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014, in which this species was included, 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 yueana.[5]

References
  1. China Plant Specialist Group. 2004. Amitostigma yuanum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004. Downloaded on 10 September 2015.
  2. "Ponerorchis yueana", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-03-17
  3. Flora of China v 25 p 130, Amitostigma yuanum
  4. "Plant Name Details for Amitostigma yueanum", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2018-03-17
  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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