Epipogium

ghost orchid

Epipogium aphyllum flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Epipogieae
Subtribe:	Epipogiinae
Genus:	Epipogium J. G. Gmel. ex Borkh.
Synonyms^[1]
Ceratopsis Lindl. Epipogon J. G. Gmel., spelling variation Epipogion St.-Lag., spelling variation Galera Blume Podanthera Wight

Epipogium is a genus of terrestrial achlorophyllous myco-heterotrophic orchids. The genus is sympodial with no root. Leaves are scale-like. Flowers are non-resupinate, arranged in terminal racemes. Stigmas are 2-lobed and the rostellum is ventrally situated and not prominent.^[2]

Species

Three species are currently recognized as of June 2014:^[1]^[3]

Epipogium aphyllum Swartz 1814 - widespread across much of Europe and northern Asia from Spain to Kamchatka and south to the Himalayas
Epipogium japonicum Makino 1904 - Honshu, Taiwan, Sichuan
Epipogium roseum (D.Don) Lindl. 1857 disjunct distribution: tropical Africa; also Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines etc.), New Guinea, Australia and some islands of the western Pacific

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