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Spiranthes romanzoffiana Cham. 1828

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Common Name Romanoff's Spiranthes [Russian State Minister 1800's] - in UK - Irish Ladies' Tresses - In USA - Hooded Ladies Tresses

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in England, Ireland, Aluetians, Alaska, North West Territories, Yukon, Alberta, Br. Columbia, Manitoba, Saskachuan, Ontario, Quebec, Prine Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, N Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconson, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusets, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Northern Mexico in tundra, bogs, open woodlands and littoral areas as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with 3 to 6, linear-lanceolate, basal leaves that climb the stem after as bracts and blooms in the summer and early fall on a terminal, to 20" [50 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bract and holding the 60, fragrant flowers in three spiralling rows.

Synonyms Gyrostachys gemmipara (Sm.) Kuntze 1891; Gyrostachys romanzoffiana (Cham.) MacMill. 1892; Gyrostachys stricta Rydb. 1900; Ibidium romanzoffianum (Cham.) House 1906; Ibidium romanzoffianum var. strictum (Rydb.) Daniels 1911; Ibidium strictum (Rydb.) House 1905; Neottia gemmipara Sm. 1828; Orchiastrum romanzoffianum (Cham.) Greene 1894; Spiranthes gemmipara (Sm.) Lindl. 1829; Spiranthes pauciflora Raf. 1833;Spiranthes romanzoffiana var. gemmipara (Sm.) Kreutz & M.H.Schot 2016; Spiranthes romanzoffiana var. stricta (Rydb.) Druce 1928; Spiranthes stricta (Rydb.) A.Nelson 1909; Triorchis romanzoffiana (Cham.) Nieuwl. 1913; Triorchis stricta (Rydb.) Nieuwl. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Linnaea 3: 32 Cham. 1828

Engl. Fl. 4: 36 Sm. 1828 as Neottia gemmipara

Syn. Brit. Fl.: 257 Lindley 1829 as Spiranthes gemmipara

Herb. Raf.: 76 Raf. 1833 as Spiranthes pauciflora

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys gemmipara

Metasp. Minnesota Valley: 171 MacMill. 1892 as Gyrostachys romanzoffiana

Man. Bot. San Francisco: 306 Greene 1894 as Orchiastrum romanzoffianum

Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 107 Rybd. 1900 as Gyrostachys stricta

Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 1: 138 Ames 1905 drawing fide;

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 381 House 1905 as Ibidium strictum

Muhlenbergia 1: 129 House 1906 as Ibidium romanzoffianum