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Orchid Species: Herminium monorchis

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Herminium monorchis is an orchid species identified by (L.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton in 1813.
Genus
Herminium (H.)
Grex
monorchis
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(L.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton
Year
1813
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ORIGIN: Found in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Western russia, Central Russia, Eastern Russia, western Siberia, eastern Siberia, Kazakistan, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan, Pakistan, western Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim and the eastern Himalayas in dune slacks, fens in plains, short grasslands and marshes in hills and mountains at elevations to to 2400 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an ellipsoid to globose tuber giving rise to an erect stem with linear-lanceolate, acuminate bracts and carrying on the lower half, 2 to 3, closely set, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, racemose, to 8 [20 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with fragrant [musk] flowers all facing in the same direction and occurring in the spring and summer.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [0.625 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Herminium H haridasanii 1992 A.N.Rao
Add+ Herminium H clandestinum 1855 Gren. & Godr.
Add+ Herminium H tanguticum 1903 (Maxim.) Rolfe
Add+ Monorchis Monorchis herminium 1949 O.Schwarz
Add+ Ophrys Oph herminium 1855 Gren. in J.C.M.Grenier & D.A.Godron
Add+ Ophrys Oph triorchis 1889 St.-Lag. in A.Cariot
Add+ Orchis Orchis herminium 1855 Gren. in J.C.M.Grenier & D.A.Godron
Add+ Epipactis Epcts monorchis 1795 (L.) F.W.Schmidt
Add+ Ophrys Oph monorchis 1753 L.
Add+ Orchis Orchis monorchis 1769 (L.) Crantz
Add+ Satyrium Satm monorchis 1807 (L.) Pers.
Add+ Arachnites Arachnites monorchis 1804 (L.) Hoffm.
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