Orchidantha
Genus of flowering plants
| Orchidantha | |
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| Orchidantha maxillarioides[3] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Zingiberales |
| Family: | Lowiaceae Ridl.[2] |
| Genus: | Orchidantha N.E.Br.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Orchidantha borneensi N.E.Br. | |
| Synonyms[4] | |
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Orchidantha is a genus of flowering plants. In the APG III system, it is placed in the family Lowiaceae,[2] as the sole genus.[5] It includes the plants in the formerly recognised genera Lowia and Protamomum.
Orchidantha remains a poorly known genus, found from southern China to Borneo.[4][6] Orchidantha means "orchid-flower", as one of the petals on the flowers is modified into a labellum, like the flowers of orchids.[7] One species, Orchidantha inouei of Borneo, imitates the smell of dung in order to attract small Onthophagus dung beetles as pollinators.[8]
Taxonomy
| Cladogram: Phylogeny of Zingiberales[9] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Species
As of August 2013[update], the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepted 17 species:[4][10]
- Orchidantha borneensis N.E.Br. - Borneo
- Orchidantha chinensis T.L.Wu - Guangdong, Guangxi
- Orchidantha fimbriata Holttum - Pen. Malaysia
- Orchidantha foetida Jenjitt. & K.Larsen - Thailand
- Orchidantha grandiflora Mood & L.B.Pedersen - Sabah
- Orchidantha holttumii K.Larsen - Sabah, Brunei
- Orchidantha inouei Nagam. & S.Sakai - Sarawak
- Orchidantha insularis T.L.Wu - Hainan
- Orchidantha laotica K.Larsen - Laos
- Orchidantha longiflora (Scort.) Ridl. - Pen. Malaysia
- Orchidantha maxillarioides (Ridl.) K.Schum. - Pahang
- Orchidantha quadricolor L.B.Pedersen & A.L.Lamb - Sabah
- Orchidantha sabahensis A.L.Lamb & L.B.Pedersen - Sabah
- Orchidantha siamensis K.Larsen - Pen. Malaysia, S Thailand
- Orchidantha stercorea H.Ð.Trần & Škorničk. - Vietnam
- Orchidantha suratii L.B.Pedersen - Sabah
- Orchidantha vietnamica K.Larsen - Vietnam
References
- ^ "Orchidantha". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
- ^ a b Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
- ^ 1894 illustration by Matilda Smith, published in "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" vol. 120 ser. 3 nr. 50 tabl. 7351
- ^ a b c Search for "Orchidantha", "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
- ^ Stevens, P.F. "Lowiaceae". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 319 兰花蕉科 lan hua jiao ke Lowiaceae Ridley
- ^ "Lowiaceae" Archived 2012-09-02 at the Wayback Machine. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 9 September 2011
- ^ Sakai, Shoko; Tamiji, Inoue (1 January 1999). "A new pollination system: dung-beetle pollination discovered in Orchidantha inouei (Lowiaceae, Zingiberales) in Sarawak, Malaysia". American Journal of Botany. 86 (1): 56–61. doi:10.2307/2656954. JSTOR 2656954. PMID 21680345.
- ^ Sass et al 2016.
- ^ Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. 261 (3). Magnolia Press: 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
Bibliography
- Sass, C; Iles, WJ; Barrett, CF; Smith, SY; Specht, CD (21 January 2016). "Revisiting the Zingiberales: using multiplexed exon capture to resolve ancient and recent phylogenetic splits in a charismatic plant lineage". PeerJ. 4: e1584. doi:10.7717/peerj.1584. PMC 4727956. PMID 26819846.
External links
Media related to Orchidantha at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Orchidantha at Wikispecies
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Families of Zingiberales- Musaceae
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