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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Platanthera

Hierarchical position of the Genus Platanthera

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Orchidales Raf. pub. Anal. Nat.: 197. Apr-Jul 1815.       Subordo  Orchidineae Rchb. pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: xxxviii. Jul 1841.       Familia  Orchidaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 64. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Orchids       Genus  Platanthera Rich. common name: fringed orchid

Named members of the Genus Platanthera

1	Species  blephariglottis (Willd.) Lindl.
	2    Varietas  blephariglottis common name: white fringed orchid 3    Varietas  conspicua (Nash) Luer common name: white fringed orchid
4	Species  brevifolia (Greene) Kranzlin common name: shortflowered bog orchid
5	Species  chapmanii (Small) Luer common name: Chapman's fringed orchid
6	Species  chorisiana (Cham.) Reichenb. common name: Chimissso's orchid
7	Species  ciliaris (L.) Lindl. common name: yellow fringed orchid
8	Species  clavellata (Michx.) Luer common name: small green wood orchid
9	Species  convallariifolia (Fisch.) Lindl.
	10    Varietas  dilatatoides Hult�n syn. Platanthera �media
11	Species  cooperi (S. Wats.) Rydb. syn. Piperia unalascensis
12	Species  cristata (Michx.) Lindl. common name: crested yellow orchid
13	Species  dilatata (Pursh) Lindl. ex Beck
	14    Varietas  albiflora (Cham.) Ledeb. common name: scentbottle 15    Varietas  angustifolia Hook. syn. Platanthera dilatata var. dilatata 16    Varietas  chlorantha Hult�n syn. Platanthera �media 17    Varietas  dilatata common name: scentbottle 18    Varietas  gracilis Ledeb. syn. Platanthera stricta 19    Varietas  leucostachys (Lindl.) Luer syn. Platanthera leucostachys
20	Species  flava (L.) Lindl.
	21    Varietas  flava common name: palegreen orchid 22    Varietas  herbiola (R. Br. ex Ait. f.) Luer common name: palegreen orchid
23	Species  gracilis Lindl. syn. Platanthera hyperborea var. gracilis
24	Species  grandiflora (Bigelow) Lindl. common name: greater purple fringed orchid
25	Species  holochila (Hbd.) Kraenzlin common name: Hawai'i bog orchid
26	Species  hookeri (Torr. ex Gray) Lindl. common name: Hooker's orchid
27	Species  huronensis (Nutt.) Lindl. common name: Huron green orchid
28	Species  hyperborea (L.) Lindl.
	29    Varietas  gracilis (Lindl.) Luer common name: lax-flowered green orchid 30    Varietas  huronensis (Nutt.) Luer syn. Platanthera huronensis 31    Varietas  hyperborea common name: northern green orchid 32    Varietas  major Lange syn. Platanthera huronensis 33    Varietas  minor Lange syn. Platanthera hyperborea var. hyperborea 34    Varietas  purpurascens (Rydb.) Luer syn. Platanthera stricta 35    Varietas  viridiflora (Cham.) Luer common name: tall Alaskan green orchid
36	Species  integra (Nutt.) Gray ex Beck common name: yellow fringeless orchid
37	Species  integrilabia (Correll) Luer common name: monkeyface
38	Species  lacera (Michx.) G. Don
	39    Varietas  terrae-novae (Fern.) Luer syn. Platanthera lacera
40	Species  leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl. common name: prairie white fringed orchid
41	Species  leucostachys Lindl. common name: Sierra bog orchid
42	Species  limosa Lindl. common name: Thurber's bog orchid
43	Species  macrophylla (Goldie) Lindl. common name: greater roundleaved orchid
44	Species  nivea (Nutt.) Luer common name: snowy orchid
45	Species  obtusata (Banks ex Pursh) Lindl.
	46    Subspecies  oligantha (Turcz.) Hult�n syn. Platanthera obtusata
47	Species  orbiculata (Pursh) Lindl.
	48    Varietas  macrophylla (Goldie) Luer syn. Platanthera macrophylla
49	Species  pallida P.M. Brown syn. Platanthera �canbyi
50	Species  peramoena (Gray) Gray common name: purple fringeless orchid
51	Species  praeclara Sheviak & Bowles common name: Great Plains white fringed orchid
52	Species  psycodes (L.) Lindl. common name: lesser purple fringed orchid
53	Species  repens (Nutt.) Wood syn. Habenaria repens
54	Species  saccata (Greene) Hult�n syn. Platanthera stricta
55	Species  sparsiflora (S. Wats.) Schlechter
	56    Varietas  brevifolia (Greene) Luer syn. Platanthera brevifolia 57    Varietas  ensifolia (Rydb.) Luer common name: sparse-flowered bog orchid 58    Varietas  sparsiflora common name: sparse-flowered bog orchid
59	Species  stricta Lindl. common name: slender bog orchid
60	Species  tipuloides (L.) Lindl.
	61    Varietas  behringiana (Rydb.) Hult�n common name: Aleutian bog orchid
62	Species  unalascensis (Spreng.) Kurtz
	63    Subspecies  elata (Jepson) Taylor & MacBryde syn. Piperia elongata 64    Subspecies  maritima (Greene) de Filipps syn. Piperia elegans ssp. elegans 65    Varietas  maritima (Greene) Correll syn. Piperia elegans ssp. elegans
66	Species  x andrewsii (M. White) Luer
67	Species  x bicolor (Raf.) Luer (pro sp.)
68	Species  x canbyi (Ames) Luer
69	Species  x channellii J.P. Folsom
70	Species  x keenanii P.M. Brown
71	Species  x media (Rydb.) Luer (pro sp.)
72	Species  x vossii Case
73	Species  zothecina (Higgins & Welsh) Kartesz & Gandhi common name: alcove bog orchid

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.