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Orchidantha
Orchidantha maxillarioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Zingiberales
Family:	Lowiaceae Ridl.
Genus:	Orchidantha N.E.Br.
Type species
Orchidantha borneensi N.E.Br.
Synonyms
Lowia Scort. 1886 not Hook.f. 1894 Lowia Hook.f. 1894 not Scort. 1886 Protamomum Ridl. 1893

Orchidantha is a genus of flowering plants. In the APG III system, it is placed in the family Lowiaceae, as the sole genus. It includes the plants in the formerly recognised genera Lowia and Protamomum.

Orchidantha remains a poorly known genus, found from southern China to Borneo. Orchidantha means "orchid-flower", as one of the petals on the flowers is modified into a labellum, like the flowers of orchids. One species, Orchidantha inouei of Borneo, imitates the smell of dung in order to attract small Onthophagus dung beetles as pollinators.

Taxonomy

Species

As of August 2013, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepted 17 species:

• Orchidantha borneensis N.E.Br. - Borneo
• Orchidantha chinensis T.L.Wu - Guangdong, Guangxi
• Orchidantha fimbriata Holttum - Pen. Malaysia
• Orchidantha foetida Jenjitt. & K.Larsen - Thailand
• Orchidantha grandiflora Mood & L.B.Pedersen - Sabah
• Orchidantha holttumii K.Larsen - Sabah, Brunei
• Orchidantha inouei Nagam. & S.Sakai - Sarawak
• Orchidantha insularis T.L.Wu - Hainan
• Orchidantha laotica K.Larsen - Laos
• Orchidantha longiflora (Scort.) Ridl. - Pen. Malaysia
• Orchidantha maxillarioides (Ridl.) K.Schum. - Pahang
• Orchidantha quadricolor L.B.Pedersen & A.L.Lamb - Sabah
• Orchidantha sabahensis A.L.Lamb & L.B.Pedersen - Sabah
• Orchidantha siamensis K.Larsen - Pen. Malaysia, S Thailand
• Orchidantha stercorea H.Ð.Trần & Škorničk. - Vietnam
• Orchidantha suratii L.B.Pedersen - Sabah
• Orchidantha vietnamica K.Larsen - Vietnam

References

1. "Orchidantha". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
2. ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
3. 1894 illustration by Matilda Smith, published in "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" vol. 120 ser. 3 nr. 50 tabl. 7351
4. ^ Search for "Orchidantha", "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
5. Stevens, P.F. "Lowiaceae". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
6. Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 319 兰花蕉科 lan hua jiao ke Lowiaceae Ridley
7. "Lowiaceae" Archived 2012-09-02 at the Wayback Machine. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 9 September 2011
8. Sakai, Shoko; Tamiji, Inoue (1 January 1999). "A new pollination system: dung-beetle pollination discovered in Orchidantha inouei (Lowiaceae, Zingiberales) in Sarawak, Malaysia". American Journal of Botany. 86 (1): 56–61. doi:10.2307/2656954. JSTOR 2656954. PMID 21680345.
9. Sass et al 2016.
10. Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. 261 (3). Magnolia Press: 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.

Bibliography

• Sass, C; Iles, WJ; Barrett, CF; Smith, SY; Specht, CD (21 January 2016). "Revisiting the Zingiberales: using multiplexed exon capture to resolve ancient and recent phylogenetic splits in a charismatic plant lineage". PeerJ. 4: e1584. doi:10.7717/peerj.1584. PMC 4727956. PMID 26819846.

External links

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

v t e Families of Zingiberales
Banana-families	Musaceae Heliconiaceae Strelitziineae Strelitziaceae Lowiaceae
Zingiberineae (Ginger-families)	Zingiberariae Zingiberaceae Costaceae Cannariae Cannaceae Marantaceae

• Zingiberales
• Zingiberales genera
• Taxa named by N. E. Brown