Biology:Aenhenrya

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Aenhenrya
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Cranichideae
Subtribe: Goodyerinae
Genus: Aenhenrya
Gopalan
Species:
A. rotundifolia
Binomial name
Aenhenrya rotundifolia
(Blatt.) C.S.Kumar & F.N.Rasm.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Odontochilus rotundifolius Blatt.
  • Anoectochilus rotundifolius (Blatt.) N.P.Balakr.
  • Aenhenrya agastyamalayana Gopalan

Aenhenrya is a monotypic genus of terrestrial orchids that spread by means of underground rhizomes. Only one species is known, Aenhenrya rotundifolia, a very rare plant and endemic to southern India (within Kerala and Tamil Nadu).[1][3]

The genus name of Aenhenrya is in honour of Ambrose Nathaniel Henry (b. 1936), Indian botanist with a focus on the flora of Southern India.[4] The Latin specific epithet of rotundifolia is Latin for round-leaved.[5] It was first described and published in J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol.90 on page 270 (1993, published in 1994).[6] Then the species was first published in Novon Vol.7 on page 81 in 1997.[2]

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they do not list any known species.[7]

References

Others sources

  • Pridgeon, A. M. et al., eds. 2003. Genera Orchidacearum. 3:66-68. (Oxford University Press)

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