Hemipilia tetraloba
Species of orchid
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Hemipilia tetraloba is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is endemic to China where it is known from Sichuan and Yunnan.[2][3][1] The flowers are pink or pale purple.[3]
| Hemipilia tetraloba | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Genus: | Hemipilia |
| Species: | H. tetraloba |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemipilia tetraloba (Finet) Y.Tang & H.Peng | |
| Synonyms | |
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Taxonomy
The species was first described in 1912 by Achille Eugène Finet, as Peristylus tetralobus. It has been placed in both Orchis and Amitostigma.[4] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014, in which this species was included as Amitostigma tetralobum, 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 then becoming Ponerorchis tetraloba.[5] The genus Ponerorchis has since been synonymized with the genus Hemipilia, resulting in the present name.
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