Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), occurring mainly in Europe and Northwest Africa, and ranging as far as Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang.[1] The name is from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις orchis, meaning "testicle", from the appearance of the paired subterranean tuberoids.[2]
^ abKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^Alberta Native Plant Council Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta (2001), p. 52, at Google Books
upwards, except for the Monkey orchid (Orchis simia), which flowers in reverse order. The original genus Orchis used to contain more than 1,300 names....
Orchis mascula, the early-purple orchid, early spring orchis, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Orchis mascula is a perennial...
also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), the type genus Orchis, and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya....
Orchis gracilis may refer to three different species of plants: Orchis gracilis (Blume) Soó, a taxonomic synonym for delicate amitostigma, Hemipilia gracilis...
Orchis militaris, the military orchid, is a species of orchid native to Europe. It is the type species of the genus Orchis. This plant grows to a height...
stained leaves. The scientific binomial name of this plant was initially Orchis maculata, proposed by the Swedish naturalist and botanist Carl Linnaeus...
1794 as Orchis fistulosa.[citation needed] Many synonyms have been published: Orchis majalis Rchb. Dactylorchis majalis (Rchb.) Verm Orchis baltica (Klinge)...
flowers in April. Orchis italica grows up to 50 centimetres (20 in) in height, with bright pink, densely clustered flowers. Orchis italica is commonly...
a flour made from the tubers of the orchid genus Orchis (including species Orchis mascula and Orchis militaris). These tubers contain a nutritious, starchy...
Orchis simia, commonly known as the monkey orchid, is a greyish pink to reddish species of the genus Orchis. It gets its common name from its lobed lip...
Orchis purpurea, the lady orchid, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the genus Orchis of the family Orchidaceae. Orchis purpurea reaches on average 30–100...
"Orchis Fatalis" is the third episode of the eighth season of British television show Midsomer Murders and the thirty-eighth episode overall. It stars...
Turkey. Orchis anatolica was originally described and published in Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae [Leipzig] 5: 56 (1844). "Orchis anatolica"...
HMS Orchis was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy during World War II. In March 1941, Orchis was the first ship fitted with the very...
Mitostigma gracile. It has been placed in various genera, including Gymnadenia, Orchis and Amitostigma. A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014, in which it was...
Eugène Finet in 1902, as Peristylus monanthus. It was later transferred to Orchis and to Amitostigma. A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014, in which it...
Orchis quadripunctata, the four-spotted orchis, is a species of orchid found from southern Italy to the eastern Mediterranean. Wikimedia Commons has media...
(xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17. Media related to Orchis anthropophora at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Orchis anthropophora at Wikispecies...
flowers are white. The dried and ground tuber (from various species of Orchis and Anacamptis) can be made into a fine white powder, called salep. This...
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