Epipogium aphyllum Swartz 1814 Photo courtesy of Th.Pain and the Orchids of France and Europe
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Common Name The Leafless Epipogium
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Czechloslavakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Western Russia, Central Russia, Eastern Russia, Siberia, , the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Pakistan, waestern Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanamar, Japan, Korea and Taiwan as a small sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial with coralloid, branching rhizome giving rise to an erect, stout, basally swollen stem carrying 2 basal unequal, brown sheaths that blooms on an erect, to 8" long, several to many flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers arising in late spring and summer.
Synonyms Epipactis epipogum Crantz 1769; Epipactis epipogium (L.) All. 1789; Epipogium aphyllum var. stenochilum Hand.-Mazz. 1925; Epipogium epipogium (L.) H.Karst. 1881; Epipogium generalis E.H.L.Krause in J.Sturm 1905; Epipogium gmelini L.C.M. Richard 1818; Epipogon epipogium (Linne) Karst 1880-3; Epipogon epipogon Kern. 1893; Epipogon generalis E.H.L. Krause 1905; Limodorum epipogium Sw. 1799; *Orchis aphylla Forssk. 1775; Satyrium epipogium Linne 1753; Serapias epipogium (L.) Steud. 1821
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005; Native Orchids of Shaanxi - Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;
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