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.


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