Orchis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Orchis
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Orchis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Orchis
Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), occurring mainly in Europe and Northwest Africa, and ranging as far as Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang. The name is from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), meaning "testicle", from the appearance of the paired subterranean tuberoids.
...Orchis in languages:
- Bulgarian
- Салеп
- Chinese
- 紅門蘭屬
- Croatian
- kaćuni
- Czech
- vstavač
- Danish
- gøgeurt
- Finnish
- pallerokämmekät
- German
- Knabenkräuter
- German
- Knabenkräuter i. e. S. (Orchis)
- Lithuanian
- Gegužraibė
- Polish
- Storczyk
- Russian
- Ятрышник
- Swedish
- nycklar
- Ukrainian
- Зозулинець
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Anacamptis
- Bartholina
- Benthamia
- Bonatea
- Brachycorythis
- Centrostigma
- Chamorchis
- Coenoemersa
- Cooktownia
- Cynorkis
- Dactylorhiza
- Diplomeris
- Dracomonticola
- Galearis
- Gennaria
- Gymnadenia
- Habenaria
- Hemipilia
- Herminium
- Himantoglossum
- Holothrix
- Hsenhsua
- Megalorchis
- Neobolusia
- Neotinea
- Oligophyton
- Ophrys
- Orchis
- Orchiserapias
- Pecteilis
- Peristylus
- Physoceras
- Platanthera
- Platycoryne
- Pseudorchis
- Roeperocharis
- Satyrium
- Schizochilus
- Serapias
- Silvorchis
- Sirindhornia
- Stenoglottis
- Steveniella
- Thulinia
- Traunsteinera
- Tsaiorchis
- Tylostigma
- Veyretella
- × Dactylodenia
- × Pseudorhiza
- × Serapicamptis
- × gymnanacamptis































































































































































