Cymbilabia shanica (Phillimore & W.W.Sm.) Ormerod, 2021

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 87

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.481.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6495434
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D887B7-8179-FFD5-FF04-FB3EFD01F972
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Cymbilabia shanica (Phillimore & W.W.Sm.) Ormerod
status	comb. nov.

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Cymbilabia shanica (Phillimore & W.W.Sm.) Ormerod View in CoL , comb. nov.

Basionym: Stauropsis shanica Phillimore & W.W.Sm., Rec. Bot. Surv. View in CoL India 4: 281, 1911. Type :— MYANMAR. Southern Shan State: 2135 m, Phillimore s.n. (holotype: CAL) .

Homotypic synonym: Vandopsis shanica (Phillimore & W.W.Sm.) Garay, Bot. View in CoL Mus View in CoL . Leafl. 23: 374, 1974.

Specimen examined:— SHAN. Southern part: type .

Distribution:— Endemic.

Note:— Known from only the type collection made over 100 years ago without an illustration that would allow a detailed morphological analysis. It is thus impossible for it to have been included in the molecular study of Liu et al. (2020a). However, the protologue indicated clearly that the species differs from C. undulata (as Stauropsis undulata ) merely in its smooth and slightly more slender stems, larger flowers and obtuse sepals and petals. We therefore feel that it is justified to include the species in the genus Cymbilabia . This also makes sense from a phytogeographical point of view, with Cymbilabia occurring in the Himalayas, northeastern India, Upper Myanmar and southwestern China and Vandopsis in Malesia and tropical mainland Asia.