Epipogium
| ghost orchid | |
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| Epipogium aphyllum flowers | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Tribe: | Epipogieae |
| Subtribe: | Epipogiinae |
| Genus: | Epipogium J. G. Gmel. ex Borkh. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Epipogium is a genus of terrestrial achlorophyllous myco-heterotrophic orchids. The genus is sympodial with no root. Leaves are scale-like. Flowers are non-resupinate, arranged in terminal racemes. Stigmas are 2-lobed and the rostellum is ventrally situated and not prominent.[2]
Species
Three species are currently recognized as of June 2014:[1][3]
- Epipogium aphyllum Swartz 1814 - widespread across much of Europe and northern Asia from Spain to Kamchatka and south to the Himalayas
- Epipogium japonicum Makino 1904 - Honshu, Taiwan, Sichuan
- Epipogium roseum (D.Don) Lindl. 1857 disjunct distribution: tropical Africa; also Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines etc.), New Guinea, Australia and some islands of the western Pacific
