Hetaeria, commonly known as hairy jewel orchids,[2] is a genus of about thirty species of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are terrestrial herbs with a succulent rhizome and a loose rosette of leaves. Small, pale, hairy non-resupinate flowers are borne on a thin, hairy flowering stem. They are found in tropical Africa and Asia to New Guinea, Australia and some Pacific Islands.
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| Drawing of Hetaeria affinis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Tribe: | Cranichideae |
| Subtribe: | Goodyerinae |
| Genus: | Hetaeria Blume[1] |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Description edit
Orchids in the genus Hetaeria are terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs with a creeping, succulent, above-ground rhizome anchored to the ground by wiry roots. The leaves are dark green, usually narrow, thin-textured and arranged in a loose rosette with a short petiole-like base, the lower leaves usually withered by flowering time. The flowers are non-resupinate and usually small, dull-coloured and hairy with the dorsal sepal and petals joined to form a hood over the column. The labellum is glabrous and has a deep pouch near its base.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming edit
The genus Hetaeria was first formally described in 1825 by Carl Ludwig Blume and the description was published in Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië.[1][5] (Blume gave the name Etaeria, but Hetaeria is a conserved name.) The name Hetaeria is an Ancient Greek word meaning "comrade" or "companion".[6]
Species list edit
Species recognized as of August 2018:[1]
- Hetaeria affinis (Griff.) Seidenf. & Ormerod - Himalayas, Thailand, Vietnam, Yunnan, Bangladesh
- Hetaeria alta Ridl. - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo
- Hetaeria anomala Lindl. - from Assam east to Taiwan and south to Sumatra and the Philippines
- Hetaeria armata Ormerod & H.A.Pedersen - Thailand
- Hetaeria baeuerlenii Schltr. - New Guinea
- Hetaeria callosa (J.J.Sm.) Ormerod - New Guinea, Bismarcks
- Hetaeria elata Hook.f. - Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines
- Hetaeria elegans Ridl. - Malaysia
- Hetaeria finlaysoniana Seidenf. - Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Guangxi, Hainan
- Hetaeria gardneri (Thwaites) Benth. ex Hook.f. - Sri Lanka
- Hetaeria gautierensis J.J.Sm. - New Guinea
- Hetaeria goodyeroides Schltr. - New Guinea
- Hetaeria heterosepala (Rchb.f.) Summerh. - Africa from Liberia to Tanzania; also Madagascar
- Hetaeria hylophiloides (Carr) Ormerod & J.J.Wood - Sabah
- Hetaeria lamellata Blume - Java
- Hetaeria latipetala Schltr. - New Guinea
- Hetaeria linguella (Carr) J.J.Wood & Ormerod - Sarawak
- Hetaeria mannii (Rchb.f.) Benth. ex Durand & Schinz - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea
- Hetaeria obliqua Blume - Hainan, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra
- Hetaeria oblongifolia Blume - widespread from India east to Japan and Micronesia, south to Australia
- Hetaeria occidentalis Summerh. - Africa from Sierra Leone to Congo-Kinshasa
- Hetaeria pelota N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb - Bhutan
- Hetaeria rhombipetala Ormerod & J.J.Wood - Sabah
- Hetaeria rostrata J.J.Sm. - Sumatra
- Hetaeria tetraptera (Rchb.f.) Summerh. - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Kinshasa
- Hetaeria vaginalis Rchb.f. - Comoros
- Hetaeria whitmeei Rchb.f. - Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga
- Hetaeria youngsayei Ormerod - Thailand, Vietnam, Hainan
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Hetaeria". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ a b Jones, David L. (2006). A complete guide to native orchids of Australia including the island territories. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: New Holland. p. 348. ISBN 1877069124.
- ^ "Hetaeria". Flora of China. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ D.L.Jones; T.Hopley; S.M.Duffy (2010). "Hetaeria". Australian Tropical Rainforest Orchids. Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ Blume, Carl Ludwig (1825). Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië (Part 8). Batavia. p. 409. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 223.
External links edit
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