Platanthera stenochila

Platanthera stenochila is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native from east Nepal through the eastern Himalayas of India to south-central China (north-west Yunnan).[1]

Platanthera stenochila
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Orchideae
Subtribe: Orchidinae
Genus: Platanthera
Species:
P. stenochila
Binomial name
Platanthera stenochila
X.H.Jin, Schuit., Raskoti & L.Q.Huang[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Herminium angustilabre King & Pantl.
  • Monorchis angustilabris (King & Pantl.) O.Schwarz
  • Androcorys angustilabris (King & Pantl.) Agrawala & H.J.Chowdhery
  • Platanthera angustilabris (King & Pantl.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin, nom. illeg.

Taxonomy edit

The species was first described in 1896, as Herminium angustilabre. It was later placed in either the genus Monorchis or the genus Androcorys,[1] both now included in Herminium. A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014 found that it was deeply embedded in a clade of Platanthera species, and so transferred it to that genus as Platanthera angustilabris (King & Pantl.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin.[2] However, this name had already been used for a different species, Platanthera angustilabris Seidenf., so was an illegitimate name. In 2015, an acceptable replacement name, Platanthera stenochila, was published.[1][3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e "Platanthera stenochila", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-03-19
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Raskoti, Bhakta Bahadur; Jin, Wei-Tao; Xiang, Xiao-Guo; Schuiteman, André; Li, De-Zhu; Li, Jian-Wu; Huang, Wei-Chang; Jin, Xiao-Hua & Huang, Lu-Qi (2016) [2015 online], "A phylogenetic analysis of molecular and morphological characters of Herminium (Orchidaceae, Orchideae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and patterns of character evolution", Cladistics, 32 (2): 198–210, doi:10.1111/cla.12125, S2CID 83774047