Ponerorchis lepida (synonym Amitostigma lepidum) is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae found on Kyushu Island in Japan, and in Nansei-shoto (Ryukyu Islands) to the south.[1]

Ponerorchis lepida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Genus:	Ponerorchis
Species:	P. lepida
Binomial name
Ponerorchis lepida (Rchb.f.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin[1]
Synonyms[1]
Amitostigma lepidum (Rchb.f.) Schltr. Gymnadenia lepida Rchb.f. (1878) Orchis lepida (Rchb.f.) Soó (1929) Orchis ferrieana Kraenzl. Galearis ferrieana (Kraenzl.) P.F.Hunt

Taxonomy

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.[1] 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 becoming Ponerorchis lepida.[2]

References

External links

• Media related to Ponerorchis lepida at Wikimedia Commons

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