''Phalaenopsis'' subg. ''Ornithochilus'' is a

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Phalaenopsis ''Phalaenopsis'' (), also known as moth orchids, is a genus of about seventy species of plants in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus are monopodial epiphytes or lithophytes with long, coarse roots, short, leafy stems and long-lastin ...

''Deng, H., Zhang, G. Q., Liu, Z. J., & Wang, Y. (2015)
A new species and a new combination of ''Phalaenopsis'' (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae: Aeridinae): evidence from morphological and DNA analysis.
Phytotaxa, 238(3), 243-254. native to Southeast Asia and the Indian Himalayas.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

The species are monopodial, epiphytic herbs.''Ornithochilus'' (Wallich ex Lindley) Bentham & J. D. Hooker. (n.d.). Flora of China @ efloras.org. Retrieved December 1, 2024, from http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=123197

Generative characteristics

The flowers are small to medium sized. The spurred labellum is immobile. The column is 0.1–0.3 cm long.Li, M. H., Zhang, G. Q., Liu, Z. J., & Lan, S. R. (2014)
Revision of ''Hygrochilus'' (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae: Aeridinae) and a molecular phylogenetic analysis.
Phytotaxa, 159(4), 256-268.

Taxonomy

Publication

It was first published as ''Aerides'' sect. ''Ornithochilus'' by

John Lindley John Lindley Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidology, orchidologist. Early years Born in Old Catton, Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four c ...

based on previous work by

Nathaniel Wallich Nathaniel Wolff Wallich (28 January 1786 – 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East Indi ...

in 1833. It was later integrated into the genus ''Phalaenopsis'' on the subgeneric level as ''Phalaenopsis'' subg. ''Ornithochilus'' published by

Alexander Kocyan Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are A ...

and

André Schuiteman André Schuiteman (born 1960, Amsterdam) is a Dutch botanist in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, United Kingdom, where he is the Research Leader for Asia in Plant Identification and Naming. '' Schuitemania'', a genus of orchid, was named ...

in 2014.''Phalaenopsis'' subgen. ''Ornithochilus'' (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kocyan & Schuit. (n.d.). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved December 1, 2024, from https://www.ipni.org/n/77138156-1Kocyan, A., & Schuiteman, A. (2014)
New combinations in Aeridinae (Orchidaceae).
Phytotaxa, 161(1), 61-85.

Species

It consists of the following species: *''

Phalaenopsis cacharensis ''Phalaenopsis cacharensis'' is a rare orchid native to Cachar, Assam which has only one plant ever recorded. The single plant was discovered by Hussain Ahmed Barbhuiya of the Botanical Survey of India while doing field work in the Borail Wildlif ...

'' (Barbhuiya, B.K.Dutta & Schuit.) Kocyan & Schuit.Schuiteman, A. (2014
''Phalaenopsis'': the limits of a genus.
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Phalaenopsis difformis ''Phalaenopsis difformis'', also known as the dark brown ''Phalaenopsis'', is a species of epiphytic orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are ...

'' (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kocyan & Schuit. *''

Phalaenopsis yingjiangensis ''Phalaenopsis yingjiangensis'', also known as 盈江羽唇兰 (ying jiang yu chun lan) in Chinese, is a species of epiphytic orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering pl ...

'' (Z.H.Tsi) Kocyan & Schuit.

References

* Orchid subgenera {{Epidendroideae-stub