Lecanorchis

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Orchidaceae
Subfamilia: Vanilloideae
Tribus: Vanilleae
Genus: Lecanorchis
Overview of species

L. betongensis – L. bicarinata – L. bihuensis – L. cerina – L. japonica – L. javanica – L. kiusiana – L. latens – L. malaccensis – L. multiflora – L. neglecta – L. nigricans – L. ohwii – L. purpurea – L. sarawakensis – L. sikkimensis – L. subpelorica – L. suginoana – L. tabugawaensis – L. taiwaniana – L. thalassica – L. triloba – L. vietnamica – L. virella
Name

Lecanorchis Blume, Mus. Bot. 2: 188 (1856)

Type species: Lecanorchis javanica Blume (1856)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Asia-Temperate
China
China South-Central, China Southeast.
Eastern Asia
Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan.
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
East Himalaya.
Indo-China
Thailand, Vietnam.
Malesia
Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Philippines, Sumatera.
Papuasia
New Guinea.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Blume, C.L. 1856. Museum Botanicum 2: 188.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) 2003. Genera Orchidacearum Volume 3: Orchidoideae (Part two); page 316 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850711-9

Links

'eFloras 2009. Lecanorchis in Flora of China vol. 25 Orchidaceae --> pdf Lecanorchis
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Lecanorchis in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 July 11. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Lecanorchis in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 July 11. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Lecanorchis. Published online. Accessed: 11 July 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Lecanorchis in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 July 11.
Tropicos.org 2019. Lecanorchis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 July 11.

Vernacular names

日本語: ムヨウラン属
перем коми: Леканорхис
коми: Леканорхис
кырык мары: Леканорхис
удмурт: Леканорхис
中文: 盂兰属

Lecanorchis is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae) belonging to the subfamily Vanilloideae.

The scientific name is derived from the Greek words lekane (basin) and orchis (orchid).

They occur in mountain forest of the Himalayas, China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea at altitudes of 300–1,500 metres (980–4,920 ft).[1][2]

They are terrestrial, leafless myco-heterotrophs (formerly called saprophytes). They produce numerous, long, thick, horizontal roots under a short rhizome. The erect, dark, branched or unbranched stems are thin and brittle. They bear few to many dull brown, purple, yellow or green flowers with a somewhat brighter lip. The lip is about of equal length to the sepals and is covered with dense, yellow hair.

Characteristics for this species are:

A calyculus, a cup-like structure formed from a group of small bracts, is present.
The erect gynostemium (the fused stamen and pistil) is elongate.

Lecanorchis is related to Clematepistephium and Eriaxis,[3] both endemic to New Caledonia.
Species

Species accepted as of June 2014:[1]

Lecanorchis amethystea Y.Sawa, Fukunaga & S.Sawa (2006) (Japan, Taiwan)
Lecanorchis betongensis Suddee & H.A.Pedersen (2011) (Thailand)
Lecanorchis bicarinata Schltr. (1922) (New Guinea)
Lecanorchis brachycarpa Ohwi. (1938) (Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan)
Lecanorchis ciliolata J.J.Sm. (1929) (New Guinea)
Lecanorchis flavicans Fukuy. (1942) (Ryukyu Islands)(Status : threatened)
Lecanorchis japonica Blume (1856) (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Fujian, Hunan)
Lecanorchis javanica Blume (1856) (Java, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, New Guinea)
Lecanorchis latens T.P.Lin & W.M.Lin (2011) (Taiwan)
Lecanorchis kiusiana Tuyama (1955) (Korea, Japan)
Lecanorchis malaccensis Ridl. (1893) (Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra)
Lecanorchis multiflora J.J.Sm. (1918) (Thailand, Yunnan, Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java)
Lecanorchis neglecta Schltr. (1911) (New Guinea)
Lecanorchis nigricans Honda (1931) (Japan, Taiwan, Fujian, Thailand, Ryukyu Islands)
Lecanorchis seidenfadenii Szlach. & Mytnik (2000) (Malaysia)
Lecanorchis sikkimensis N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb (1999) (Sikkim, Bhutan)
Lecanorchis subpelorica T.C.Hsu & S.W.Chung, (2010) (Taiwan)
Lecanorchis suginoana (Tuyama) Seriz. (2005)
Lecanorchis thalassica T.P.Lin (1987) (Taiwan)
Lecanorchis vietnamica Aver. (2005), Vietnam
Lecanorchis virella T.Hashim. (1989) (Japan, Taiwan)

A new species, Lecanorchis tabugawaensis was described in 2016.[4]
References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Flora of China v 25 p 171, 盂兰属 yu lan shu, Lecanorchis Blume, Mus. Bot. 2: 188. 1856
Cameron, K. M. (2009) On the Value of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Gene Sequences for Reconstructing the Phylogeny of Vanilloid Orchids (Vanilloideae, Orchidaceae). Annals of Botany 104 (3): 377–85.

Suetsugu, Kenji; Fukunaga, Hirokazu (2016-03-11). "Lecanorchis tabugawaensis (Orchidaceae, Vanilloideae), a new mycoheterotrophic plant from Yakushima Island, Japan". PhytoKeys (73): 125–135. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.73.10019. ISSN 1314-2003. PMC 5109904. PMID 27872560.

Blume, C. L. von (1856) Museum Botanicum 2: 188.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2003) Genera Orchidacearum 3: 316 ff. Oxford University Press.
Orchid Research Newsletter 47 (January 2006) - Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
Dariusz L. Szlachetko & Joanna Mytnik - Lecanorchis seidenfadeni (Orchidaceae, Vanilloideae), a new orchid species from Malaya ; An.Bot.Fennici 37;227-230 (on line : [1])