Aphyllorchis gollanii Duthie (1902:42)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Aphyllorchis gollani [orth. var.; used by Hágsater et al., 1996:91]
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of A. alpina) (Chakraborty et al., 2021; POWO, 2025)
Last record: 1900 (Nayar & Sastry, 1987:224)
Since Rediscovered (Manilal & Kumar, 2004 fide Humphreys et al., 2019)
Distribution & Habitat
India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Duthie, J. F. (1902). Descriptions of some new species of Orchidaceae from North-west and Central India. Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal 71(2).
Other references:
Chakraborty, Sayak, Agrawala, Dinesh Kumar, Aazhivaendhan, Gopalakrishnan and Jalal, Jeewan Singh. (2021). Notes on Aphyllorchis gollanii and
Aphyllorchis alpina (Orchidaceae) and lectotypification of both names. Richardiana (n.s.) 5: 34-47.
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Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
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