Hemipilia lepida is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae found on Kyushu Island in Japan, and in the Ryukyu Islands to the south.[1]

Hemipilia lepida
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Hemipilia
Species:
H. lepida
Binomial name
Hemipilia lepida
(Rchb.f.) Y.Tang, H.Peng & T.Yukawa
Synonyms
  • Amitostigma lepidum (Rchb.f.) Schltr.
  • Gymnadenia lepida Rchb.f. (1878)
  • Orchis lepida (Rchb.f.) Soó (1929)
  • Ponerorchis lepida (Rchb.f.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin
  • Galearis ferrieana (Kraenzl.) P.F.Hunt
  • Orchis ferrieana Kraenzl.

Taxonomy

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The species was first described by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1878, as Gymnadenia lepida. It has been placed in various genera, including Gymnadenia, Orchis and Amitostigma.[2] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014, in which it was included as Amitostigma lepidum, 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 then becoming Ponerorchis lepida.[3] The genus Ponerorchis has since been synonymized with the genus Hemipilia, resulting in the present name.

References

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  1. ^ "Hemipilia lepida (Rchb.f.) Y.Tang, H.Peng & T.Yukawa | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
  2. ^ "Ponerorchis lepida", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-03-17
  3. ^ 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