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Rein Orchids
Piperia
Piperia is a genus of the orchid family Orchidaceae. These plants are known as rein orchids. They are native to western North America, especially California and the Pacific Northwest. This genus has the following characteristics: (a) a bisexual perennial nongreen plant that grows from buried tubers; fruit capsule bearing numerous minute seeds; (c) pollen that is sticky, and which is removed as sessile anther sacs; and (d) stigma fused with its style into a column. There...
10 branches of this group, most-observed first
Elegant Rein Orchid
speciesPlatanthera elegans
Alaska Rein Orchid
speciesPlatanthera unalascensis
Flat Spurred Piperia
speciesPlatanthera transversa
Denseflower Rein Orchid
speciesPlatanthera elongata
Whiteflower Rein Orchid
speciesPlatanthera ephemerantha
Michael's Rein Orchid
speciesPlatanthera michaelii
Cooper's Rein Orchid
speciesPlatanthera cooperi
Yadon's Rein Orchid
speciesPlatanthera yadonii
narrow-petaled rein-orchid
speciesPlatanthera leptopetala
Coleman's Rein Orchid
speciesPlatanthera colemanii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 132363.