Hemipilia pinguicula
| Hemipilia pinguicula | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Subtribe: | Orchidinae |
| Genus: | Hemipilia X.H.Jin, Lu Q.Huang, W.T.Jin & X.G.Xiang |
| Species: | H. pinguicula
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| Binomial name | |
| Hemipilia pinguicula (Rchb.f. & S.Moore) Y.Tang & H.Peng
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Hemipilia pinguicula is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is native to south-eastern China (north-eastern Zhejiang).[1]
Description[edit]
Hemipilia pinguicula grows from a ovoid shaped tuber. It has a single stem leaf, situated near the base of the stem. The inflorescence consists of a single relatively large flower, rose-red to purple in colour, with a three-lobed lip (labellum). The upper sepal and the lateral petals are grouped to form a hood. The flower has a conical spur, longer than the lip. There are two stigmas that extend under the short rostellum.[2]
Taxonomy[edit]
The species was first described in 1878 as Gymnadenia pinguicula. It was later transferred again to Habenaria and then Amitostigma.[1] 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 pinguicula becoming Ponerorchis pinguicula.[3] Later studies suggested that Ponerorchis pinguicula lay outside the main clade consisting of Hemipilia, Ponerorchis, Sirindhornia, and Tsaiorchis, and a new genus, Shizhenia, was created for it.[2][4] After some adjustment of the generic boundaries, the genus Shizhenia was synonymized with the genus Hemipilia.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Shizhenia pinguicula", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-04-04
- ^ a b Jin, Weitao; Xiang, Xiaoguo & Jin, Xiaohua (2015), "Generic delimitation of Orchidaceae from China: current situation and perspective" (pdf), Biodiversity Science (in Chinese and English), 23 (2): 237–242, doi:10.17520/biods.2014268, retrieved 2018-04-01
- ^ 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
- ^ Jin, Wei-Tao; Schuiteman, André; Chase, Mark W.; Li, Jian-Wu; Chung, Shih-Wen; Hsu, Tian-Chuan & Jin, Xiao-Hua (2017), "Phylogenetics of subtribe Orchidinae s.l. (Orchidaceae; Orchidoideae) based on seven markers (plastid matK, psaB, rbcL, trnL-F, trnH-psba, and nuclear nrITS, Xdh): implications for generic delimitation", BMC Plant Biology, 17 (1): 222, doi:10.1186/s12870-017-1160-x, PMC 5702240, PMID 29178835