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Internal ID UUID644039bbcc5cc475431119
Scientific name Epipogium aphyllum
Authority Sw.
First published in Summa Veg. Scand. : 32 (1814)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Limodorum epipogium Sw. Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 6: 80 (1799)
Satyrium epipogium L. Sp. Pl. : 945 (1753)
Serapias epigogium Steud. Nomencl. Bot. : 766 (1821)
Epipogium aphyllum f. albiflorum Y.N.Lee & K.S.Lee Bull. Korea Pl. Res. 4: 5 (2004)
Epipactis epipogium All. Auct. Fl. Pedem. : 32 (1789)
Epipogium aphyllum var. stenochilum Hand.-Mazz. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 3(Dec.): 8. 1925
Epipogium epipogium (L.) H.Karst. Deut. Fl. 455. 1881 (1881)
Epipogium generalis E.H.L.Krause Deutschl. Fl. Abbild. ed. 2, 4: 10. 1905 (1905)
Epipogium gmelinii Rich. De Orchid. Eur. 36. 1817 [Aug-Sep 1817] ; preprint from Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 4: 58. 1818.
Epipogon epipogium H.Karst. Deut. Fl. (Karsten) 455. 1881 [Sep 1881]
Limodorum aphyllum (F.W.Schmidt) Sw. Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 6: 80 1799
Orchis aphylla F.W.Schmidt Samml. Phys. Aufsätze Böhm. Naturgesch. 1: 240 (1791)

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Language Common/alternative name
English ghost orchid
Spanish epipogium aphyllum var. stenochilum
Spanish epipogium generalis
Spanish limodorum epipogium
Spanish epipogium epipogium
Spanish epipogon epipogon
Spanish epipogon generalis
Spanish orchis aphylla
Spanish satyrium epipogium
Spanish epipactis epipogium
Spanish epipogon epipogium
Belarusian Надбароднік бязлісты
Bulgarian безлистен епипогиум
Catalan orquídia fantasma
Czech sklenobýl bezlistý
Welsh y galdrist rithiol
German widerbart
German ohnblatt
German blattloser widerbart
Estonian lehitu pisikäpp
Finnish metsänemä
Finnish korallimetsänemä
French Épipogon sans feuilles
French epipogon sans feuilles
French Épipogon sans fleurs
Croatian bezlisni nadbradac
Upper Sorbian bjezłopjenata njebródka
Hungarian levéltelen bajuszvirág
Armenian Էպիպոգիում անտերև
Italian epipogio afillo
Italian epipogio
Georgian ბელადის ორქიდეა
Kazakh Жапырақсыз орашық
lb ouniblat-geeschterorchidee
Lithuanian belapė antabarzdė
Lithuanian antbarzdė
Lithuanian belapė antbarzdė
Norwegian Bokmål huldreblomst
Norwegian Bokmål huldreblom
Dutch spookorchis
Norwegian Nynorsk huldreblom
os Зылындидин
Polish storzan bezlistny
Russian Надбородник безлистный
Serbian Дух орхидеја
Swedish skogsfru
Thai กล้วยไม้ผียูเรเชีย
tt Яфраксыз иренләч
Ukrainian надбородник безлистий
Chinese 垦丁虎舌兰
Chinese 无叶上须兰
Chinese 裂唇虎舌兰
Chinese 無葉上鬚蘭
Chinese 昙花茎

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  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • China
      • China North-central
      • China South-central
      • Inner Mongolia
      • Manchuria
      • Tibet
      • Xinjiang
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Korea
      • Taiwan
    • Russian Far East
      • Amur
      • Kamchatka
      • Khabarovsk
      • Primorye
      • Sakhalin
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Buryatiya
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • Tuva
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
    • Western Asia
      • Turkey
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • East Himalaya
      • Nepal
      • Pakistan
      • West Himalaya
    • Indo-China
      • Myanmar
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • Krym
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • South European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Turkey-in-Europe
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
      • Spain

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000952334
Tropicos 23500755
INPN 96499
Flora of Italy 8251
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:633401-1
The Plant List kew-70443
Plantarium 14664
Open Tree Of Life 1000200
NCBI Taxonomy 449980
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002295
IPNI 633401-1
iNaturalist 366363
GBIF 2849252
Freebase /m/02y_crl
EPPO EGMAP
EOL 1098515
Elurikkus 4582
Wikipedia Epipogium_aphyllum

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The orchid seed coat: a developmental and functional perspective Lee YI, Yeung EC Bot Stud 27-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10533777
doi:10.1186/s40529-023-00400-0
PMID:37755558
A phylogeny for North American Mallocybe (Inocybaceae) and taxonomic revision of eastern North American taxa Matheny PB, Kudzma LV, Graddy MG, Mardini SM, Noffsinger CR, Swenie RA, Walker NC, Campagna SR, Halling R, Lebeuf R, Kuo M, Lewis DP, Smith ME, Tabassum M, Trudell SA, Vauras J Fungal Syst Evol 01-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10918758
doi:10.3114/fuse.2023.12.09
PMID:38455953
Flora of Northeast Asia Wang SQ, Dong XY, Ye L, Wang HF, Ma KP Plants (Basel) 07-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10304201
doi:10.3390/plants12122240
PMID:37375866
Orchidaceae in Puglia (Italy): Consistency, Distribution, and Conservation Turco A, Albano A, Medagli P, D’Emerico S, Wagensommer RP Plants (Basel) 05-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10255703
doi:10.3390/plants12112223
PMID:37299203
Floral attractants in the black orchid Brasiliorchis schunkeana (Orchidaceae, Maxillariinae): clues for presumed sapromyophily and potential antimicrobial activity Lipińska MM, Gołębiowski M, Szlachetko DL, Kowalkowska AK BMC Plant Biol 10-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9737770
doi:10.1186/s12870-022-03944-8
PMID:36496375
Phytogeographic Characteristics of Montane Coniferous Forests of the Central Balkan Peninsula (SE Europe) Ilić T, Kuzmanović N, Vukojičić S, Lakušić D Plants (Basel) 22-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9741231
doi:10.3390/plants11233194
PMID:36501234
The extremely reduced, diverged and reconfigured plastomes of the largest mycoheterotrophic orchid lineage Wen Y, Qin Y, Shao B, Li J, Ma C, Liu Y, Yang B, Jin X BMC Plant Biol 20-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9487142
doi:10.1186/s12870-022-03836-x
PMID:36123622
Diversity of Root-Associated Fungi of the Terrestrial Orchids Gavilea lutea and Chloraea collicensis in a Temperate Forest Soil of South-Central Chile Herrera H, Sanhueza T, da Silva Valadares RB, Matus F, Pereira G, Atala C, Mora MD, Arriagada C J Fungi (Basel) 29-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9409917
doi:10.3390/jof8080794
PMID:36012784
Orchid Phylotranscriptomics: The Prospects of Repurposing Multi-Tissue Transcriptomes for Phylogenetic Analysis and Beyond Wong DC, Peakall R Front Plant Sci 27-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9196242
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.910362
PMID:35712597
Vegetation Classification and Distribution Patterns in the South Slope of Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon National Nature Reserve, Eastern Himalayas Wu PP, Wang Z, Jia NX, Dong SQ, Qu XY, Qiao XG, Liu CC, Guo K Plants (Basel) 28-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9105001
doi:10.3390/plants11091194
PMID:35567195
More smooth-spored species of Inocybe (Agaricales, Ba sidiomycota): type studies and 12 new species from Europe Bandini D, Oertel B, Eberhardt U Persoonia 04-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC10792289
doi:10.3767/persoonia.2023.48.03
PMID:38234688
Weak population spatial genetic structure and low infraspecific specificity for fungal partners in the rare mycoheterotrophic orchid Epipogium aphyllum Minasiewicz J, Krawczyk E, Znaniecka J, Vincenot L, Zheleznaya E, Korybut-Orlowska J, Kull T, Selosse MA J Plant Res 06-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8894228
doi:10.1007/s10265-021-01364-7
PMID:34993702
Crepidium sect. Crepidium (Orchidaceae, Malaxidinae)—Chemical and Morphological Study of Flower Structures in the Context of Pollination Processes Margońska HB, Kozieradzka-Kiszkurno M, Brzezicka E, Haliński ŁP, Davies KL, Lipińska MM Plants (Basel) 04-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8621117
doi:10.3390/plants10112373
PMID:34834736
The Genomic Impact of Mycoheterotrophy in Orchids Jąkalski M, Minasiewicz J, Caius J, May M, Selosse MA, Delannoy E Front Plant Sci 09-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8220222
doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.632033
PMID:34177974
Great Vasyugan Mire: How the world’s largest peatland helps addressing the world’s largest problems Kirpotin SN, Antoshkina OA, Berezin AE, Elshehawi S, Feurdean A, Lapshina ED, Pokrovsky OS, Peregon AM, Semenova NM, Tanneberger F, Volkov IV, Volkova II, Joosten H Ambio 07-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8497674
doi:10.1007/s13280-021-01520-2
PMID:33677811

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