Orchidant ( lat. Orchidantha ) is a genus of flowering plants , isolated into an independent family Lovievye ( lat. Lowiaceae ) of the order imbire color . Representatives of the previously isolated genus Lovia ( Lowia ), Protamomum ( Protamomum ) and Wolfia ( Wolfia ) belong to it . The orchidant remains a poorly studied genus, containing more than a dozen species common in southern China and in Borneo . Translated from Latin, "orchid" means "orchid-like flower", since one petal of orchid is transformed into a lip (labellum), like that of orchids. One species, Orchidantha inouei from Borneo , mimics the smell of manure to attract pollinators - dung beetles of the genus Onthophagus .
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 Orchidantha maxillarioides | |||||||||||||||||||
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Orchidantha NEBr. 1886 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Types
According to the information of The Plant List database (as of July 2016), the genus includes 17 species [2] :
- Orchidantha borneensis NEBr.
- Orchidantha chinensis TLWu
- Orchidantha fimbriata holttum
- Orchidantha foetida Jenjitt. & K.Larsen
- Orchidantha grandiflora Mood & LBPedersen
- Orchidantha holttumii K.Larsen
- Orchidantha inouei Nagam. & S.Sakai
- Orchidantha insularis TLWu
- Orchidantha laotica K.Larsen
- Orchidantha longiflora ( Scort. ) Ridl.
- Orchidantha maxillarioides ( Ridl. ) K.Schum.
- Orchidantha quadricolor LBPedersen & ALLamb
- Orchidantha sabahensis ALLamb & LBPedersen
- Orchidantha siamensis K.Larsen
- Orchidantha stercorea H.R.Trần & Škorničk.
- Orchidantha suratii LBPedersen , J.Linton & ALLamb
- Orchidantha vietnamica K.Larsen
Notes
- ↑ On the conditionality of specifying the class of monocotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the “APG Systems” section of the article “Monocotyledons” .
- ↑ Orchidantha (English) . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). The appeal date is July 27, 2016.
Links
- "Lowiaceae" . Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September 9, 2011
- Sakai, Shoko; Tamiji, Inoue. Orchidantha inouei (Lowiaceae, Zingiberales) in Sarawak, Malaysia (Eng.) // American Journal of Botany: journal. - 1999. - 1 January ( vol. 86 , no. 1 ). - P. 56-61 .