Ponerorchis monantha is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae native from south-east Tibet to south-central and north-central China.[1]

Ponerorchis monantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Genus:	Ponerorchis
Species:	P. monantha
Binomial name
Ponerorchis monantha (Finet) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin[1]
Synonyms[1]
Peristylus monanthus Finet Amitostigma monanthum (Finet) Schltr. Orchis monantha (Finet) Soó Amitostigma forrestii Schltr. Amitostigma nivale Schltr. Orchis forrestii (Schltr.) Soó Orchis nivalis (Schltr.) Soó Amitostigma monanthum var. forrestii (Schltr.) Tang & F.T.Wang

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Achille Eugène Finet in 1902, as Peristylus monanthus. It was later transferred to Orchis and to Amitostigma.[1] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014, in which it was included as Amitostigma monanthum, 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 monantha.[2]

References

External links

• Media related to Ponerorchis monantha at Wikimedia Commons

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