''Mycaranthes'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants that are found in almost every habitat on Eart ...

s. It was previously considered as a

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of the genus ''

Eria ''Eria'' is a genus of orchids with more than 50 species distributed in China, the Himalayas, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Species ''Eria'' species accepted by Plants of the World On ...

'', but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

, the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than list of h ...

and

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

.Flora of China v 25 p 348, 拟毛兰属 ni mao lan shu, ''Mycaranthes'' Blume, Bijdr. 352. 1825.
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Species

# '' M. anceps'' ( Leav.) Cootes & W.Suarez - Palawan, Negros # '' M. candoonensis'' (

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) Cootes & W.Suarez - Mindanao # '' M. citrina'' ( Ridl.) Rauschert - Palawan, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia # '' M. clemensiae'' (Leav.) Cootes & W.Suarez - Philippines # '' M. davaensis'' (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Mindanao # '' M. depauperata'' J.J.Wood - Sabah # '' Mycaranthes farinosa'' (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood - Borneo # '' Mycaranthes floribunda'' (D.Don) S.C.Chen & J.J.Wood - Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Borneo # '' M. forbesiana'' ( Kraenzl.) Rauschert - Sumatra # '' M. gigantea'' (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Philippines # '' M. hawkesii'' ( A.H.Heller) Rauschert - New Guinea # '' M. lamellata'' (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Leyte, Mindanao # '' M. latifolia'' Blume - Indonesia, Malaysia # '' M. leucotricha'' (

Schltr. Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (16 October 1872 – 16 November 1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. He went on botanical expeditions in Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South and Central America an ...

) Rauschert - New Guinea # '' M. lobata'' Blume - Indonesia # '' M. longibracteata'' (Leav.) Cootes & W.Suarez - Philippines# # '' Mycaranthes magnicallosa'' (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood - Sabah # '' M. major'' (Ridl.) J.J.Wood - Borneo, Maluku, Philippines # '' Mycaranthes melaleuca'' (Ridl.) J.J.Wood - Borneo # '' Mycaranthes meliganensis'' J.J.Wood - Sabah # '' M. merguensis'' ( Lindl.) Rauschert - Myanmar, Thailand # '' M. mindanaensis'' (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Capiz, Sibuyan # '' M. monostachya'' (Lindl.) Rauschert - Java, Sumatra # '' M. nieuwenhuisii'' ( J.J.Sm.) Rauschert - Borneo # '' M. obliqua'' Lindl. - Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra # '' M. oblitterata'' Blume -Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Bali # '' M. padangensis'' (Schltr.) Brieger - Sumatra # '' Mycaranthes pannea'' (Lindl.) S.C.Chen & J.J.Wood - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Tibet, Yunnan, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Assam, Borneo, Sumatra, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam # '' M. rhinoceros'' (Ridl.) Rauschert - Sumatra # '' M. schistoloba'' (Schltr.) Rauschert - Sumatra # '' M. sonkaris'' ( Rchb.f.) Rauschert - Sumatra, Borneo, Sumbawa # '' M. stenophylla'' (Schltr.) Rauschert - New Guinea # '' M. tjadasmalangensis'' (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert - Java, Sumatra # '' M. tricuspidata'' ( Rolfe) Rauschert - Sulawesi # '' M. vanoverberghii'' (Ames) Cootes, D.P.Banks & W.Suarez - Philippines

References

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