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Orchid Species: Orchis bifolia

Kew currently accepted name is Platanthera bifolia

Orchis bifolia is an orchid species identified by L. in 1753. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Platanthera bifolia.
Genus
Orchis (Orchis.)
Grex
bifolia
Parents
Species
Author
L.
Year
1753
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ORIGIN: Found in the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Western Russia, Central Russia, Eastern Russia, Western Siberia, Algeria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Mongolia in short grasslands, moorlands, open woodlands and sometimes marshes at elevations up to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Miniature to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with a spindly, stem carrying 2 to 3, basal, near erect to spreading, broadly ellioptic to oval, shiny green leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, 1 3/4' [50 cm] long, simply racemose, laxly many flowered inflorescence and carrying large, fragrant [especially at night] 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+ Platanthera P bifolia 1817 (L.) Rich.
Add+ Platanthera P kuenkelei 1981 H.Baumann
Add+ Conopsidium Conopsidium platantherum 1840 Wallr.
Add+ Conopsidium Conopsidium stenantherum 1840 Wallr.
Add+ Orchis Orchis ochroleuca 1826 Schur
Add+ Platanthera P atropatanica 2015 (B.Baumann, H.Baumann, R.Lorenz & Ruedi Peter) P.Delforge
Add+ Platanthera P boenninghauseniana 1879 F.H.Wilms
Add+ Platanthera P fornicata 2011 (Bab.) Buttler
Add+ Platanthera P reichenbachiana 1879 F.H.Wilms
Add+ Habenaria Hab fornicata 1836 Bab.
Add+ Orchis Orchis alba 1795 Lam.
Add+ Orchis Orchis paucifolia 1789 Gaterau
Add+ Orchis Orchis platanthera 1905 (Wallr.) E.H.L.Krause in J.Sturm
Add+ Orchis Orchis stenanthera 1905 E.H.L.Krause in J.Sturm
Add+ Platanthera P bifolia lusus quadrifolia 1928 (Peterm.) Soó
Add+ Platanthera P bifolia lusus trifolia 1928 (Gaudin) Soó
Add+ Platanthera P brachyglossa 1831 (Wallr.) Rchb.
Add+ Platanthera P carducciana 1883 Goiran
Add+ Platanthera P lancifolia 1926 (Rohlena) A.W.Hill
Add+ Platanthera P major 1928 (Besser) Linding.
Add+ Platanthera P pervia 1846 Peterm.
Add+ Platanthera P satyrioides 1851 Rchb.f. in H.G.L.Reichenbach
Add+ Platanthera P schuriana 1868 Fuss
Add+ Platanthera P solstitialis 1842 Boenn. ex Drejer
Add+ Platanthera P subalpina 1886 Brügger
Add+ Platanthera P viricimaculata 1899 Kraenzl.
Add+ Platanthera P wankelii 1842 Rchb.
Add+ Gymnadenia Gym bifolia 1836 (L.) G.Mey.
Add+ Habenaria Hab bifolia 1813 (L.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton
Add+ Lysias Lysias bifolia 1812 (L.) Salisb.
Add+ Sieberia Sieberia bifolia 1817 (L.) Spreng.
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