Cephalantheropsis

Cephalantheropsis
Cephalantheropsis obcordata
1853 illustration from
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Collabieae
Genus: Cephalantheropsis
Guillaumin

Cephalantheropsis is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), comprising 4 accepted species distributed in China, Japan, the Eastern Himalayas and Southeast Asia.[1][2]

Closely related to Calanthe and Phaius, recent phylogenetic analysis [3] indicates that this genus is in the tribe Collabieae (which also includes Spathoglottis and Acanthephippium) rather than in Bletiinae.

Species

Species currently accepted as of May 2014:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Flora of China v 25 p 288, 黄兰属 huang lan shu, genus Cephalantheropsis
  3. Chen CL, Liao FS, Cheng SH (2010). "Phylogenetic analysis in the genera Phaius and Cephalantheropsis using rpl32-TRNL marker". Acta Horticulturae. 878: 107–113.

Further reading

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