!Goodyera repens (Linne) R. Brown 1813 SECTION Goodyera
Photos by Yuri Mitrofanov
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Photo Website
LATE 
and EARLY 
Common Name Lesser Rattlesnake Plantain - In China Xiao Ban Ye Lan
Flower Size 1/4" [.625 cm]
Found in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Belaruss, western Russia, central Russia, Western Siberia, eastern Siberia, Kazakastan, Kirgistan, Mongolia, Turkey, Iran, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, western Himalayas, Pakistan, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Br Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchuan, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Labrador, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconson, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusets, Conecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennesee and Virginia at elevations up to 2000 [3800] meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid of coniferous forests in damp humus, tundra, wooded areas and thickets with a creeping rhizome giving rise to elliptic-ovate, lusterous dark green, obscurely veined with silver leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, pubescent, 3 to 14" [7.5 to 35 cm] long, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence with small pubescent flowers.
Synonyms Elasmatium repens Dulac 1867; Epipactis chinensis (Schltr.) Hu 1925; Epipactis mairei (Schltr.) Hu 1925; Epipactis repens (Linne) Crantz 1769; Epipactis repens var. ophioides (Fernald) A.A.Eaton 1908; Gonogona repens (L.) Link 1822; Goodyera chinensis Schltr.1919; Goodyera mairei Schltr. 1921; Goodyera marginata Lindl. 1840; Goodyera pubescens var. repens (L.) Alph.Wood 1847; Goodyera repens f. ophioides (Fernald) P.M.Br. 1995; Goodyera repens subsp. ophioides (Fernald) Á.Löve & W.Simon 1968; Goodyera repens var. japonica Nakai 1953; Goodyera repens var. marginata (Lindl.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Goodyera repens var. ophioides Fernald 1899; Neottia repens (L.) Sw. 1800; Orchiodes marginatum (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Orchiodes repens (L.) Kuntze 1891; Orchiodes resupinatum Kuntze 1891; Orchis repens (L.) Eyster ex Poir. 1805; Peramium repens Salisb. 1812; Peramium ophioides Rydb. in N.L.Britton 1901; Peramium repens var. ophioides (Fernald) A.Heller 1900; Peramium secundum (Raf.) House 1924; Satyrium hirsutum Gilib. 1792; *Satyrium repens Linne 1753; Serapias repens (L.) Vill. 1787; Tussaca repens (L.) Raf. 1814; Tussaca secunda Raf. 1814
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus Schlechter 1919 as G chinense; Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus Schlechter 1919; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing ok; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1927; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as G repens var ophiodesi; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974; Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Vol 2 Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of north West Himalayas Deva & Naithani 1986 drawing fide; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 4 1994; Orchid Digest Vol 63 #2 1999 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East Delforge 2005; Native Orchids of Shaanxi Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Orchids of Huanglong Perner, Tang Si-Yuan 2007 photos fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo ok; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; A review on Spiranthoideae genera in Arunachal Pradesh Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 27 (1&2) : 1-33, Rao 2011 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #8 2014 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 photo plant only fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 photo fide; Terrestrial Orchids Swami 2016 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
Goodyera repens var. ophioides Fernald 1899 Photo courtesy of Brandon Gallagher Watson
A Variety of the previous species.
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