Nervilia

Nervilia
Nervilia aragoana by Lewis Roberts
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Gastrodieae
Subtribe: Nervilliinae
Genus: Nervilia
Comm. ex Gaudich.
Species

About 65, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Aplostellis Thouars
  • Bolborchis Zoll. & Moritzi
  • Cordyla Blume (illegitimate homonym)
  • Haplostellis Endl.
  • Rophostemon Endl. (orth. var.)
  • Roptrostemon Blume
  • Stellorchis Thouars (orth. var.)
  • Stellorkis Thouars

Nervilia is a genus of orchid with about 65 species widely distributed across most of sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa, southern Asia (Saudi Arabia, India, China, Japan, Indochina, Indonesia, etc.), Australia, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.[1] Six species occur in Australia (2 or 3 of these endemic),[2] with 16 in India,[3] 10 in China[4] and 5 in South Africa.[5]

There are flowering and non-flowering varieties - the non-flowering plants have only a single leaf and are either ground-hugging or erect. The flowering varieties have a fleshy flower stem with only one or a few flowers and a leaf which arises later at the base of the dying flower stem. The flowers of the Australian species are rarely seen in the wild because they appear soon after the first heavy rains of the wet season and only live for 1 to 4 days.[2]

Nervilia is the sole member of its subtribe, the Nervilliinae.

Species include:[6]

  • Nervilia acuminata (J.J.Sm.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia adolphi Schltr., 1915
  • Nervilia affinis Schltr., 1924
  • Nervilia apiculata Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia ballii G.Will., 1980
  • Nervilia bandana (Blume) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia beumeei J.J.Sm., 1927
  • Nervilia bicarinata (Blume) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia borneensis (J.J.Sm.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia campestris (J.J.Sm.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia concolor (Blume) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia crociformis (Zoll. & Moritzi) 1978
  • Nervilia cumberlegii Seidenf. & Smitinand, 1965
  • Nervilia dilatata (Blume) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia falcata (King & Pantl.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia fordii (Hance) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia fuerstenbergiana Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia gammieana (Hook.f.) Pfitzer, 1888
  • Nervilia gassneri Börge Pett., 1990
  • Nervilia gleadowii A.N.Rao, 1992
  • Nervilia grandiflora Schltr., 1910
  • Nervilia hirsuta (Blume) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia hispida Blatt. & McCann, 1932
  • Nervilia holochila (F.Muell.) Schltr., 1906
  • Nervilia hookeriana (King & Pantl.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia ignobilis Tuyama, 1940
  • Nervilia imperatetorum Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia infundibulifolia Blatt. & McCann, 1932
  • Nervilia jacksoniae Rinehart & Fosberg, 1991
  • Nervilia juliana (Roxb.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia khasiana (King & Pantl.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia kotschyi (Rchb.f.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia lanyuensis S.S.Ying, 1989
  • Nervilia leguminosarum Jum. & H.Perrier, 1912
  • Nervilia lilacea Jum. & H.Perrier, 1911
  • Nervilia mackinnonii (Duthie) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia macroglossa (Hook.f.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia macrophylla Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia maculata (E.C.Parish & Rchb.f.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia maliana Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia nipponica Makino, 1909
  • Nervilia oxyglossa Fukuy., 1937
  • Nervilia palawensis Schltr., 1921
  • Nervilia pallidiflora Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia pectinata P.J.Cribb, 1977
  • Nervilia peltata B.Gray & D.L.Jones, 1994
  • Nervilia petaloidea Carr, 1933
  • Nervilia petraea (Afzel. ex Sw.) Summerh., 1945
  • Nervilia platychila Schltr., 1906
  • Nervilia plicata (Andrews) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia porphyrophylla Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia punctata (Blume) Makino, 1902
  • Nervilia renschiana (Rchb.f.) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia sciaphila Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia seranica J.J.Sm., 1928
  • Nervilia shirensis (Rolfe) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia similis Schltr., 1915
  • Nervilia stolziana Schltr., 1915
  • Nervilia subintegra Summerh., 1938
  • Nervilia taitoensis (Hayata) Schltr., 1911
  • Nervilia taiwaniana S.S.Ying, 1978
  • Nervilia trichophylla Fukuy., 1940
  • Nervilia umenoi Fukuy., 1940
  • Nervilia uniflora (F.Muell.) Schltr., 1906
  • Nervilia winckelii J.J.Sm., 1918

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jones, David L. (2006). A Complete Guide to Native Orchids of Australia Including the Island Territories. Reed New Holland. Sydney, Auckland, London, Cape Town. ISBN 1-877069-12-4.
  3. ↑ Orchid Kerala, Nervilia
  4. ↑ Flora of China v 25 p 197, 芋兰属 yu lan shu, Nervilia Commerson ex Gaudichaud, Voy. Uranie, Bot. 421. 1829.
  5. ↑ Plants of Southern Africa: an Online Check List
  6. ↑ Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Nervilia". World Checklist of Orchidaceae.

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