Pterostylis arfakensis

Pterostylis arfakensis is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to Indonesian West Papua in New Guinea. It was first formally described in 1917 by Johannes Jacobus Smith who gave it the name Pterostylis papuana var. arfakensis. The description was published in Lilian Gibbs's book A Contribution to the Phytogeography and Flora of the Arfalk Mountains from a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains.[3][4] In 2002 David Jones and Mark Clements raised it to species level as Pterostylis arfakensis.[5]

Pterostylis arfakensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Tribe:	Cranichideae
Genus:	Pterostylis
Species:	P. arfakensis
Binomial name
Pterostylis arfakensis (J.J.Sm.) D.L.Jones) & M.A.Clem.[1]
Synonyms[2]
Pterostylis papuana var. arfakensis J.J.Sm.

References

1. "Pterostylis arfakensis". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2. "Pterostylis arfakensis". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. "Pterostylis papuana var. arfakensis". APNI. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
4. Smith, Johannes Jacobus; Gibbs, Lilian Suzette (ed.) (1917). A Contribution to the Phytogeography and Flora of the Arfalk Mountains. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 107–108. Retrieved 16 June 2017.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
5. "Pterostylis arfakensis". APNI. Retrieved 16 June 2017.