''Mycaranthes'' is a genus of orchids. 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 the Plants of the Worl ...

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

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, the Himalayas and New Guinea.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'' ( Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Mindanao # '' M. citrina'' (

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) 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 ''Mycaranthes'' is a genus of orchids. It was previously considered as a synonym of the genus ''Eria'', but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to Southeast Asia, China, the Himalayas and New Guinea. Species # '' ...

'' (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood - Borneo # ''

Mycaranthes floribunda ''Mycaranthes'' is a genus of orchids. It was previously considered as a synonym of the genus ''Eria'', but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to Southeast Asia, China, the Himalayas and New Guinea. Species # '' M ...

'' (D.Don) S.C.Chen & J.J.Wood - Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Borneo # '' M. forbesiana'' (

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) 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'' (

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) Rauschert - New Guinea # '' M. lobata'' Blume - Indonesia # '' M. longibracteata'' (Leav.) Cootes & W.Suarez - Philippines# # ''

Mycaranthes magnicallosa ''Mycaranthes'' is a genus of orchids. It was previously considered as a synonym of the genus ''Eria'', but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to Southeast Asia, China, the Himalayas and New Guinea. Species # '' M ...

'' (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 ''Mycaranthes'' is a genus of orchids. It was previously considered as a synonym of the genus ''Eria'', but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to Southeast Asia, China, the Himalayas and New Guinea. Species # '' M ...

'' 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'' (

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) 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 ''Mycaranthes'' is a genus of orchids. It was previously considered as a synonym of the genus ''Eria'', but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to Southeast Asia, China, the Himalayas and New Guinea. Species # '' M ...

'' (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. Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889) was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of ''Icones Florae Germanicae et Helve ...

) 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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