familyOrchidaceae
subfamilyOrchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
genusCephalanthera
speciesCephalanthera austiniae
Cephalanthera austiniae
Cat. N. Amer. Pl. ed. 2, 4. 1900.
Common names: Phantom orchid snow orchid
IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Chloraea austiniae A. Gray Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 83. 1877 (as austinae)
Synonyms: Eburophyton austiniae (A. Gray) A. Heller
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 584.
Revision as of 05:27, 30 July 2020 by imported>Volume Importer
Plants pure white, 19–65 cm. Leaves proximally reduced to scarious sheathing bracts, to 10 cm, distally reduced to bracts, pure white, becoming brown. Inflorescences: floral bracts scarious, the proximal often foliaceous, distal usually reduced, lanceolate, apex acuminate. Flowers ascending, loosely open orbs, white with yellow markings; sepals lance-elliptic, 12–20 × 4–7 mm, base spread, curving forward to meet but not touch, apex obtuse to subacute; petals oblanceolate, arcuate, 10–17 × 3–6 mm, associated with dorsal sepal; lip 8–12 × 9–14 mm, lateral lobes flanking column, distal end deflexed, yellow centrally. Capsules erect, ellipsoid-oblanceoloid, 15 × 10 mm.
Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Mineral soil in dry to moist coniferous forests
Elevation: 0–2200 m
Distribution
B.C., Calif., Idaho, Oreg., Wash.
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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parallel +
fleshy +
separating +
self-pollination +
acuminate +
curving +
spread +
indehiscent +
reduced +
sheathing +
appressed +
scarious +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (?) +
erect +
ellipsoid-oblanceoloid +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (?) +
yellow +
deflexed +
lanceolate +
reduced +
absent +
foliaceous +
proximal +
scarious +
open +
symmetric +
white +
ascending +
epigynous +
showy +
few;many +
bisexual +
fleshy +
3-carpellate +
connate +
Present +
connate +
alternate +
saccate +
white +
yellow +
modified +
differing in form and color +
compound +
inferior +
anatropous +
numerous +
minute +
small +
dense +
flowering +
modified +
petaloid +
arcuate +
10mm;17mm +
oblanceolate +
subdivided +
absent +
fertile +
reduced +
Cat. N. Amer. Pl. ed. +
1900 +
creeping +
scattered +
fleshy +
numerous +
lance-elliptic +
greener +
? (?) +
foliaceous +
longitudinal +
various +
opposite +
adnate +
1;2 +
leafy +
modified +
delicate +
proliferous +
absent +
adnate +
Cephalanthera austiniae +
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species +
stolonoid +
multilayered +
spongy +
absent +
achlorophyllous +
perennial +
subterranean +