Orchidaceae
Porpax

Porpax extinctoria (Lindl.) Schuit., Y.P.Ng & H.A.Pedersen

First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 186: 199 (2018)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Central Nepal, Bangladesh to Myanmar, Andaman Islands. It is a pseudobulbous epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
  • Ormerod, P., Kurzweil, H. & Watthana, S. (2021). Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar. Phytotaxa 481: 1-262.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Huda, M.K., Hoque, M.M. & Alam, M.O. (2020). Notes on four new Angiospermic (Orchidaceae) records from Bangladesh. The Journal of the Orchid Society of India 34: 1-9.
  • Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
  • Raskoti, B.B. (2009). The Orchids of Nepal: 1-252. Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti and Rita Ale.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Parish [74] India K000357606 Type Yes
White, K. [s.n.] Nepal Eria extinctoria K:SPC-53531.000 No
White, K. [s.n.] Nepal Eria extinctoria K:SPC-55195.000 No
White, K. [s.n.] Nepal Eria extinctoria K:SPC-56617.000 No
Griffith, Wm. [358] India Eria extinctoria K000357605 Type Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0