Hemipilia parceflora

Hemipilia parceflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to south-central China (north-eastern Sichuan, Chongqing).^[1] The epithet has been mis-spelt "parciflora" by some authors.^[2]

Hemipilia parceflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Genus:	Hemipilia
Species:	H. parceflora
Binomial name
Hemipilia parceflora (Finet) Y.Tang & H.Peng
Synonyms
Amitostigma parceflorum (Finet) Schltr. Orchis parceflora (Finet) Hand.-Mazz. Peristylus tetralobus f. parceflorus Finet Ponerorchis parceflora (Finet) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1902 by Achille Eugène Finet, as Peristylus tetralobus f. parceflorus. It was later raised to a full species and transferred to the genus Amitostigma as Amitostigma parceflorum.^[3] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014 found that species of Amitostigma, Neottianthe and Ponerorchis were mixed together in a single clade, making none of the three genera monophyletic as then circumscribed. Amitostigma and Neottianthe were subsumed into Ponerorchis, with this species then becoming Ponerorchis parceflora.^[4] The genus Ponerorchis has since been synonymized with the genus Hemipilia, resulting in the present name.