Species
Cephalanthera austiniae (Phantom orchid)
Cephalanthera austiniae. Photo: (c) Valerie Norton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
Cephalanthera austiniae is a species of orchid known by the common names phantom orchid and snow orchid because the entire plant is white except for a few yellow markings on the flowers.
- 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: Neottieae
- Subtribe: Limodorinae
- Genus: Cephalanthera
- Species: Cephalanthera austiniae (Phantom orchid)
- Genus: Cephalanthera
- Subtribe: Limodorinae
- Tribe: Neottieae
- 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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