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<mods:titleid="784F08DB0CBE3A4FD81DDF2D2F6A23E6">Cephalanthera yintiaolingensis (Orchidaceae, Epidendroidee, Neottieae), a new mycoheterotrophic orchid from Northeast Chongqing, China</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="E9C2E62AF2B8BA888FB597FD25DB5933">Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin 541006, China. & guilinxiongchi @ 126. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9082 - 2539</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="7B80F8F2D633AC519880B243D96E57A0">State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. College of Life Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Shapingba, Chongqing 401331, China. & xiaohuajin @ ibcas. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9987 - 5602</mods:affiliation>
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in the mycoheterotrophic habit, but differs from it by having conical spur at the base of the lip, flabellate middle lobe with five to seven lamellae and acuminate apex (
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by sharing flower with spur at the base of the lip, but differs from it by having its mycoheterotrophic with wholly achlorophyllous leaves, flabellate middle lobe, sepals and petals obtuse at apex(
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. A) Habitat; B) Habit; C) front view of a flower; D) anatomy of a flower; E) side view of lip and column; F) dorsal view of colume; G) side view of column; H) ventral view of column. A, B and C photographed by Feng Chen, others photographed by Chi Xiong.
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<bibRefCitationid="EF988D934A57FFB0FCF4FF23FBA66E81"author="Miyabe, K. & Kudo, Y."box="[873,1132,231,255]"pageId="4"pageNumber="123"pagination="279 - 387"refId="ref4024"refString="Miyabe, K. & Kudo, Y. (1932) Flora of Hokkaido and Saghallen III: Monocotyledoneae Araceae to Orchidaceae. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University 26 (3): 279 - 387."type="journal article"year="1932">Miyabe & Kudô (1932)</bibRefCitation>
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<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFED6FE08FD796F9C"box="[331,691,460,482]"gridcol="1"gridrow="5"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">Shorter or same length as pedicel and</td>
<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFD5EFE08FBE16F9C"box="[707,1067,460,482]"gridcol="2"gridrow="5"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">Shorter or same length as pedicel and</td>
<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFBA6FE08FA586F9C"box="[1083,1426,460,482]"gridcol="3"gridrow="5"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">Obviously longer than pedicel and</td>
<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFD5EFDA2FBE16C02"box="[707,1067,614,636]"gridcol="2"gridrow="10"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">middle lobe reniform with cuspidate</td>
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<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFD5EFD40FBE16CE4"box="[707,1067,644,666]"gridcol="2"gridrow="11"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">apex; lip with three lamellae</td>
<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFBA6FD40FA586CE4"box="[1083,1426,644,666]"gridcol="3"gridrow="11"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">transversely reniform with obtuse</td>
<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFED6FD05FD796CA9"box="[331,691,705,727]"gridcol="1"gridrow="13"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">Anther hinged at the top of column</td>
<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFD5EFD05FBE16CA9"box="[707,1067,705,727]"gridcol="2"gridrow="13"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">Anther hinged at the top of column</td>
<tdid="76E89B5C4A57004BFBA6FD05FA586CA9"box="[1083,1426,705,727]"gridcol="3"gridrow="13"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">Anther sited directly on the top of</td>
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were discovered in broadleaf mixed forest at Yintiaoling Nature Reserve. They were subdivided into two subpopulations. The habitat of
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is within the core zone of this nature reserve. We temporarily assessed its conservation status as Data Deficient (DD) based on Categories and Criteria of
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<emphasisid="B97D2C704A57FFB0FF20FC14FD246D94"bold="true"box="[189,750,976,1002]"pageId="4"pageNumber="123">Status of similar taxa regarding trophic modes</emphasis>
:—It is notable that the most morphological similar species of
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) had been treated to be an infraspecific abnormality of a generally considered autotrophic species,
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, as either
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or
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. But its independent species status was unequivocally supported by more recent studies of both molecular evidence (
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is most probably a mixotrophic species, and it was latter considered to be strongly (but not fully) mycoheterotrophic (
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. Although it is tentatively placed the two forms (with undifferentiated lip in the former and being achlorophyllous in the latter) both as conspecific to
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. However, further phylogenetic studies by incorporated more representative samples will clarify the interspecific relationships of this group of orchids with more diversified trophic modes and replete with pelorias.