I spent months studying Apostasia nipponica, based on type an dlive specimens from Japan to Hainan and Vietnam and merged A. ramifera and A. shenzhenica under A. nipponica, in one of my article:
Kumar, P. & Gale, S. (2022) Taxonomic notes on Apostasia nipponica and Crepidium cordilabium (Orchidaceae), two species newly recorded from Hong Kong. Feddes Repertorium 133 (4): 268-284. https://doi.org/10.1002/fedr.202200002
And, here they published one more new species, Apostasia fujianica from China which looks exactly same as A. nipponica from Japan and Hong Kong. They will have one new species from each state in mainland!!
Where is the mistake? Why two different genome size cant occur in same species? There are such examples in animals.
Li, Y., Ma, L., Liu, D.K., Zhao, X.W., Zhang, D., Ke, S., Chen, G.Z., Zheng, Q., Liu, Z.J. & Lan, S. (2023) Apostasia fujianica (Apostasioideae, Orchidaceae), a new Chinese species: evidence from morphological, genome size and molecular analyses. Phytotaxa 583 (3): 277–284. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.583.3.6
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