Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Arethuseae
Subtribe:	Bletiinae
Alliance:	Calanthe
Genus:	Bletilla
Species:	B. striata
Binomial name
*Bletilla striata* (Thunb.) Rchb.f. (1878)
Synonyms^[1]
Bletia gebina Lindl. (1847) Bletia hyacinthina (Sm.) Aiton (1813) Bletia hyacinthina var. gebina (Lindl.) Blume (1858) Bletia striata (Thunb.) Druce (1917) Bletilla elegantula (Kraenzl.) Garay & G.A. Romero (1998) Bletilla gebina (Lindl.) Rchb.f. (1853) Bletilla striata f. gebina (Lindl.) Ohwi (1953) Bletilla striata var. albomarginata Makino (1929) Bletilla striata var. gebina (Lindl.) Rchb.f. (1852) Calanthe gebina (Lindl.) Lindl. (1855) Coelogyne elegantula Kraenzl. (1921) Cymbidium hyacinthinum Sm. (1805) Cymbidium striatum (Thunb.) Sw. (1799) Epidendrum striatum (Thunb.) Thunb. (1794) Gyas humilis Salisb. (1812) Jimensia nervosa Raf. (1838) Jimensia striata (Thunb.) Garay & R.E. Schult. (1958) Limodorum hyacinthinum (Sm.) Donn (1807) Limodorum striatum Thunb. (1784) (Basionym) Polytoma inodora Lour. ex Gomes Mach. (1868) Sobralia bletioides Brongn. ex Decne. (1847)

For other orchids called "hyacinth orchid", see Dipodium.

Bletilla striata, known as hyacinth orchid,^[2] is a species of orchid native to Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto (Ryukyu Islands), Myanmar (Burma), and China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang)^[1]^[3]

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