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Orchid Species: Orchis repens

Kew currently accepted name is Goodyera repens

Orchis repens is an orchid species identified by (L.) Eyster ex Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck in 1805. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Goodyera repens.
Genus
Orchis (Orchis.)
Grex
repens
Parents
Species
Author
(L.) Eyster ex Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck
Year
1805
ORIGIN: Found from North Carolina to Florida and west to Arkansas and Texas and then south through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr. Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina as well as Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago at elevations of 25 to 3000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial in standing water as an aquatic orchid in bogs, roadside ditches and canals or as a terrestrial in marshy areas and is the most wideranging Habenaria in the US. It has fig shaped tubers and hairy roots with an erect stem carrying several, linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, basally clasping leaves that are reduced to bracts towards the apex of the stem. This orchid can flower at any time of the year and occurs on a erect, densely flowered, terminal raceme with several to many [10 to 50] flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Goodyera G repens 1813 (L.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton
Add+ Epipactis Epcts chinensis 1925 (Schltr.) Hu
Add+ Goodyera G brevis 1922 Schltr.
Add+ Goodyera G chinensis 1919 Schltr.
Add+ Goodyera G ophioides 1931 (Fernald) Rydb.
Add+ Orchiodes Orchiodes marginatum 1891 (Lindl.) Kuntze
Add+ Orchiodes Orchiodes resupinatum 1891 Kuntze
Add+ Peramium Peramium secundum 1924 (Raf.) House
Add+ Elasmatium Elasmatium repens 1867 (L.) Dulac
Add+ Epipactis Epcts repens 1769 (L.) Crantz
Add+ Gonogona Gonogona repens 1822 (L.) Link
Add+ Orchiodes Orchiodes repens 1891 (L.) Kuntze
Add+ Peramium Peramium repens 1812 (L.) Salisb.
Add+ Satyrium Satm hirsutum 1792 Gilib.
Add+ Serapias Srps repens 1787 (L.) Vill.
Add+ Tussaca Tussaca secunda 1814 Raf.
Add+ Goodyera G mairei 1921 Schltr.
Add+ Goodyera G marginata 1840 Lindl.
Add+ Neottia Neot repens 1800 (L.) Sw.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Hab. repens 'Rockbridge' (2007) Hab. repens 'Surprise' (1978)
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