Ponerorchis bifoliata

Ponerorchis bifoliatum (synonym Amitostigma bifoliatum) is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae.[2] It is endemic to China, known only from Gansu and Sichuan.[3][1] It produces pale purple flowers.[4]

Ponerorchis bifoliata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Genus: Ponerorchis
Species:
P. bifoliata
Binomial name
Ponerorchis bifoliata
(Tang & F.T.Wang) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin
Synonyms[2]
  • Amitostigma bifoliatum Tang & F.T.Wang

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1936 by Tsin Tang and Fa Tsuan Wang, as Amitostigma bifoliatum.[2] 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 this species becoming Ponerorchis bifoliata.[5]

References

  1. China Plant Specialist Group. 2004. Amitostigma bifoliatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004. Downloaded on 10 September 2015.
  2. "Ponerorchis bifoliata", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-03-17
  3. Flora of China v 25 p 130, 棒距无柱兰 bang ju wu zhu lan, Amitostigma bifoliatum
  4. Amitostigma bifoliatum. Flora of China.
  5. 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


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