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Bentley's coralroot
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Bentley's coralroot

Corallorhiza bentleyi

Corallorhiza bentleyi is a rare species of orchid known to grow solely in mountainous deciduous forests of Virginia and West Virginia, United States. It was undescribed until 1999.

It is a parasitic plant, with yellow to reddish stems and cleistogamous flowers.

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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 160863.