Cephalantheropsis

Cephalantheropsis is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), comprising 4 accepted species distributed in China, Japan, the Eastern Himalayas and Southeast Asia.^[1][2]

Cephalantheropsis
Cephalantheropsis obcordata 1853 illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Collabieae
Genus:	Cephalantheropsis Guillaumin

Closely related to Calanthe and Phaius, recent phylogenetic analysis ^[3] indicates that this genus is in the tribe Collabieae (which also includes Spathoglottis and Acanthophippium) rather than in Bletiinae.

Species

Species currently accepted as of May 2014:^[1]

• Cephalantheropsis halconensis (Ames) S.S.Ying - Taiwan, Luzon
• Cephalantheropsis laciniata Ormerod - Peninsular Malaysia
• Cephalantheropsis longipes (Hook.f.) Ormerod - Guangxi, Taiwan, Tibet, Yunnan, Sikkim, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines
• Cephalantheropsis obcordata (Lindl.) Ormerod - Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Maluku, Philippines

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Flora of China v 25 p 288, 黄兰属 huang lan shu, genus Cephalantheropsis
3. Chen CL, Liao FS, Cheng SH (2010). "Phylogenetic analysis in the genera Phaius and Cephalantheropsis using rpl32-TRNL marker". Acta Horticulturae. 878: 107–113.

External links

•   Data related to Cephalantheropsis at Wikispecies
•   Media related to Cephalantheropsis at Wikimedia Commons