''Pachites'' is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains two known species, both endemic to South Africa.Hans Peter Linder and Hubert Kurzweil. 1999. ''Orchids of Southern Africa''. 504 pages. A. A. Balkema. .Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. (See ''External links'' below). One of these, '' Pachites appressus'', is very rare.Richard J. Waterman, Anton Pauw, Timothy G. Barraclough, and Vincent Savolainen. 2009. "Pollinators underestimated: A molecular phylogeny reveals widespread floral convergence in oil-secreting orchids (sub-tribe Coryciinae) of the Cape of South Africa". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 51(1):100-110. . ''Pachites'' was named by

John Lindley 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 w ...

in 1835.''Pachites'' in International Plant Names Index. (see ''External links'' below).John Lindley. 1830-1840. ''The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants'': page 301. Ridgeways, Piccadilly: London, UK. (See ''External links'' below). The

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is derived from the Greek word ''pachys'', meaning "thick, stout", and refers to the rostellum.Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. ''CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names'', volume III. CRC Press: Baton Rouge, New York, London, Washington DC. (set). (see ''External links'' below). In ''Genera Orchidacearum'' volume 2, ''Pachites'' and '' Satyrium'' constitute the

subtribe Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus. The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals) or -inae (in plants Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plant ...

Satyriinae of the tribe Diseae.Alec M. Pridgeon, Phillip J. Cribb, Mark W. Chase, and Finn N. Rasmussen. 1999-2014. ''Genera Orchidacearum'' Oxford University Press. (volume 1), (volume 2), (volume 3), (volume 4), (volume 5), (volume 6). (See ''External links'' below). After that work was published in 2001,

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showed that ''Pachites'' does not form a

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with ''Satyrium''.Benny Bytebier, Timotheűs van der Niet, Dirk U. Bellstedt, and Hans Peter Linder. 2008. "The phylogenetic position of the enigmatic orchid genus ''Pachites''". ''South African Journal of Botany'' 74(2):306-312. . Instead, ''Pachites'' occupies a

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in Diseae. In spite of the

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published in 2008 and 2009, uncertainties remain over the exact relationships of ''Pachites'' to other genera. In a

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of orchids that was published in 2015, ''Pachites'', '' Disa'', and '' Huttonaea'' constitute the subtribe Disinae of the tribe Orchideae.Mark W. Chase, Kenneth M. Cameron, John V. Freudenstein, Alec M. Pridgeon, Gerardo A. Salazar, Cássio van den Berg, and André Schuiteman. 2015. "An updated classification of Orchidaceae". ''Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'' 177(2):151-174. (See ''External links'' below). This circumscription of Disinae, however, was done provisionally, to avoid creating new subtribes before further studies could determine, with increased certainty, the true

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of these three genera.

Species

* '' Pachites appressus''

, 1835 – Langeberg Mountains * ''

Pachites bodkinii ''Pachites'' is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains two known species, both endemic to South Africa.Hans Peter Linder and Hubert Kurzweil. 1999. ''Orchids of Southern Africa''. 504 pages. A. A. Balkema. .Kew ...

'' Harry Bolus, 1893 – Cape Province

References

Sources

* Berg Pana, H. 2005. ''Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee''. Ulmer, Stuttgart

External links

''Pachites''World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesKew Gardens

''Pachites''Plant NamesIPNI

page 301View BookThe Genera and Species of Orchidaceous PlantsTitlesBHL

CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: D-LCRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: M-QBotany & Plant ScienceLife ScienceCRC Press

page 48''Genera Orchidacearum'' volume 2Google Books

An updated classification of Orchidaceae (2015)Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyWiley Online Library
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