Cheirostylis

Cheirostylis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Tribe:	Cranichideae
Subtribe:	Goodyerinae
Genus:	Cheirostylis Blume 1825
Type species
Cheirostylis montana Blume
Synonyms
Gymnochilus Blume Arisanorchis Hayata Mariarisqueta Guinea Hayata Aver.

Cheirostylis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae.

The genus Cheirostylis consists of 53 species recognized distributed from tropical Africa and Madagascar as well as from the region from India east to Japan and the western Pacific, south to Australia.

Cheirostylis is one of the so-called jewel orchids (Belitsky and Bersenev, 1999). This is a very distinct genus, characterized by its sepals connate to form a sepaline tube, lip with a saccate base containing a few papillae, claw entire on either side, column with two stylidia. Cheirostylis is conventionally propagated by seeds, however the germination rate is very low.

Species

• Cheirostylis bidentata J.J.Sm. (1928)
• Cheirostylis bipunctata Aver. (1996)
• Cheirostylis calcarata X.H.Jin & S.C.Chen (2007)
• Cheirostylis celebensis P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm. (2006)
• Cheirostylis chinensis Rolfe (1895)
• Cheirostylis clibborndyeri S.Y.Hu & Baretto (1976)
• Cheirostylis cochinchinensis Blume (1859)
• Cheirostylis dendrophila Schltr. (1911)
• Cheirostylis didymacantha Seidenf. (1978)
• Cheirostylis divina (Guinea) Summerh. (1953)
• Cheirostylis filipetala Aver. (2003)
• Cheirostylis flabellata (A.Rich.) Wight (1851)
• Cheirostylis foliosa Aver. (2007)
• Cheirostylis goldschmidtiana Schltr. (1915)
• Cheirostylis grandiflora Blume (1859)
• Cheirostylis gunnarii A.N.Rao (1998)
• Cheirostylis inabai Hayata (2004) EN
• Cheirostylis jamesleungii S.Y.Hu & Barretto (1976)
• Cheirostylis javanica J.J.Sm. (1913)
• Cheirostylis kabaenae Ormerod (2008)
• Cheirostylis latipetala Aver. & Averyanova (2006)
• Cheirostylis lepida (Rchb.f.) Rolfe (1897)
• Cheirostylis liukiuensis Masam. (1930)
• Cheirostylis malipoensis X.H.Jin & S.C.Chen (2007)
• Cheirostylis malleifera E.C.Parish & Rchb.f. (1874)
• Cheirostylis marmorifolia Aver. (2000)
• Cheirostylis merrillii (Ames & Quisumb.) Ormerod (1998)
• Cheirostylis moniliformis (Griff.) Seidenf. (1978)
• Cheirostylis montana Blume (1825)
• Cheirostylis monteiroi S.Y.Hu & Barretto (1976)
• Cheirostylis notialis D.L.Jones (1997)
• Cheirostylis nuda (Thouars) Ormerod (2002)
• Cheirostylis octodactyla Ames (1907)
• Cheirostylis okabeana Tuyama (1951)
• Cheirostylis orobanchoides (F.Muell.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (1998)
• Cheirostylis ovata (F.M.Bailey) Schltr. (1911)
• Cheirostylis parvifolia Lindl. (1839)
• Cheirostylis pingbianensis K.Y.Lang (1996)
• Cheirostylis pubescens E.C.Parish & Rchb.f. (1874)
• Cheirostylis pusilla Lindl. (1840)
• Cheirostylis raymundii Schltr. (1915)
• Cheirostylis seidenfadeniana Sath.Kumar & F.N.Rasm. (1987)
• Cheirostylis serpens Aver. (2005)
• Cheirostylis sessanica A.N.Rao (1988)
• Cheirostylis sherriffii N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb (1999)
• Cheirostylis spathulata J.J.Sm. (1927)
• Cheirostylis tabiyahanensis (Hayata) N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb (1999)
• Cheirostylis takeoi (Hayata) Schltr. (1919)
• Cheirostylis thailandica Seidenf. (1978)
• Cheirostylis thanmoiensis (Gagnep.) Ormerod (2002)
• Cheirostylis tippica A.N.Rao (1991)
• Cheirostylis tortilacinia C.S.Leou (1990)
• Cheirostylis yunnanensis Rolfe (1896)

References

• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (1999). Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press.
• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2001). Genera Orchidacearum 2. Oxford Univ. Press.
• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3. Oxford Univ. Press
• Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart