Difference between revisions of "Cephalanthera austiniae"

(A. Gray) A. Heller

Cat. N. Amer. Pl. ed. 2, 4. 1900.

Common names: Phantom orchid snow orchid
IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Chloraea austiniae A. Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 83. 1877 (as austinae)
Synonyms: Eburophyton austiniae (A. Gray) A. Heller
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 584.
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Latest revision as of 22:12, 5 November 2020

Plants pure white, 19–65 cm. Leaves proximally reduced to scarious sheathing bracts, to 10 cm, distally reduced to bracts, pure white, becoming brown. Inflorescences: floral bracts scarious, the proximal often foliaceous, distal usually reduced, lanceolate, apex acuminate. Flowers ascending, loosely open orbs, white with yellow markings; sepals lance-elliptic, 12–20 × 4–7 mm, base spread, curving forward to meet but not touch, apex obtuse to subacute; petals oblanceolate, arcuate, 10–17 × 3–6 mm, associated with dorsal sepal; lip 8–12 × 9–14 mm, lateral lobes flanking column, distal end deflexed, yellow centrally. Capsules erect, ellipsoid-oblanceoloid, 15 × 10 mm.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Mineral soil in dry to moist coniferous forests
Elevation: 0–2200 m

Distribution

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B.C., Calif., Idaho, Oreg., Wash.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Cephalanthera austiniae"
Charles J. Sheviak +  and Paul M. Catling +
(A. Gray) A. Heller +
Chloraea austiniae +
Phantom orchid +  and snow orchid +
B.C. +, Calif. +, Idaho +, Oreg. +  and Wash. +
0–2200 m +
Mineral soil in dry to moist coniferous forests +
Flowering summer. +
Cat. N. Amer. Pl. ed. +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Eburophyton austiniae +
Cephalanthera austiniae +
Cephalanthera +
species +