''Mycaranthes'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...

s. It was previously considered as a

synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ...

of the genus ''

Eria ''Eria'' is a genus of orchids with more than 50 species distributed in China, the Himalayas, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Species ''Eria'' species accepted by the Plants of the Worl ...

'', but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...

and

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

.Flora of China v 25 p 348, 拟毛兰属 ni mao lan shu, ''Mycaranthes'' Blume, Bijdr. 352. 1825.
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Species

# '' M. anceps'' ( Leav.) Cootes & W.Suarez - Palawan, Negros # '' M. candoonensis'' (

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) Cootes & W.Suarez - Mindanao # '' M. citrina'' (

Ridl. Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees ...

) Rauschert - Palawan, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia # '' M. clemensiae'' (Leav.) Cootes & W.Suarez - Philippines # '' M. davaensis'' (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Mindanao # '' M. depauperata'' J.J.Wood - Sabah # ''

Mycaranthes farinosa ''Mycaranthes'' is a genus of orchids. It was previously considered as a synonym of the genus ''Eria'', but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to Southeast Asia, China, the Himalayas and New Guinea. Species # '' ...

'' (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood - Borneo # '' Mycaranthes floribunda'' (D.Don) S.C.Chen & J.J.Wood - Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Borneo # '' M. forbesiana'' (

Kraenzl. Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin (25 July 1847 – 9 March 1934) was a botanist associated with the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum (BM). In the history of the European study of South African orchids, Fritz Krä ...

) Rauschert - Sumatra # '' M. gigantea'' (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Philippines # '' M. hawkesii'' ( A.H.Heller) Rauschert - New Guinea # '' M. lamellata'' (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Leyte, Mindanao # '' M. latifolia'' Blume - Indonesia, Malaysia # '' M. leucotricha'' (

Schltr. Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (16 October 1872 – 16 November 1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. He went on botanical expeditions in Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South and Central America a ...

) Rauschert - New Guinea # '' M. lobata'' Blume - Indonesia # '' M. longibracteata'' (Leav.) Cootes & W.Suarez - Philippines# # '' Mycaranthes magnicallosa'' (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood - Sabah # '' M. major'' (Ridl.) J.J.Wood - Borneo, Maluku, Philippines # '' Mycaranthes melaleuca'' (Ridl.) J.J.Wood - Borneo # '' Mycaranthes meliganensis'' J.J.Wood - Sabah # '' M. merguensis'' (

Lindl. John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley ...

) Rauschert - Myanmar, Thailand # '' M. mindanaensis'' (Ames) Cootes & W.Suarez - Capiz, Sibuyan # '' M. monostachya'' (Lindl.) Rauschert - Java, Sumatra # '' M. nieuwenhuisii'' ( J.J.Sm.) Rauschert - Borneo # '' M. obliqua'' Lindl. - Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra # '' M. oblitterata'' Blume -Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Bali # '' M. padangensis'' (Schltr.) Brieger - Sumatra # '' Mycaranthes pannea'' (Lindl.) S.C.Chen & J.J.Wood - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Tibet, Yunnan, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Assam, Borneo, Sumatra, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam # '' M. rhinoceros'' (Ridl.) Rauschert - Sumatra # '' M. schistoloba'' (Schltr.) Rauschert - Sumatra # '' M. sonkaris'' (

Rchb.f. Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889) was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of ''Icones Florae Germanicae et Helve ...

) Rauschert - Sumatra, Borneo, Sumbawa # '' M. stenophylla'' (Schltr.) Rauschert - New Guinea # '' M. tjadasmalangensis'' (J.J.Sm.) Rauschert - Java, Sumatra # '' M. tricuspidata'' ( Rolfe) Rauschert - Sulawesi # '' M. vanoverberghii'' (Ames) Cootes, D.P.Banks & W.Suarez - Philippines

References

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