Species
Corallorhiza mertensiana (Pacific coralroot)
Corallorhiza mertensiana. Photo: (c) Tom Hilton, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Corallorhiza mertensiana, or Pacific coralroot, is a coralroot orchid native to the shady conifer forests of northwestern North America. It also goes by the common names Western coralroot and Mertens’ coralroot. Corallorhiza mertensiana was previously considered a subspecies of Corallorhiza maculata but was given species rank in 1997 by Freudenstein.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Class: Liliopsida (Monocots)
- Order: Asparagales (Agaves, orchids, irises, and allies)
- Family: Orchidaceae (Orchids)
- Subfamily: Epidendroideae (Lower epidendroideae)
- Tribe: Epidendreae
- Subtribe: Calypsoinae
- Genus: Corallorhiza (Coralroots)
- Species: Corallorhiza mertensiana (Pacific coralroot)
- Genus: Corallorhiza (Coralroots)
- Subtribe: Calypsoinae
- Tribe: Epidendreae
- Subfamily: Epidendroideae (Lower epidendroideae)
- Family: Orchidaceae (Orchids)
- Order: Asparagales (Agaves, orchids, irises, and allies)
- Class: Liliopsida (Monocots)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
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