Calopogon tuberosus

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'tuberous grasspink']

• English: Tuberous grass pink
• مصرى: جراب درنى

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Arethuseae • Subtribus: Arethusinae • Genus: Calopogon • Species: Calopogon tuberosus (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. (1888)

Synonyms

Basionym Limodorum tuberosum L., Sp. Pl.: 950. (1753) Homotypic synonyms Helleborine tuberosa (L.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 665 (1891). Cathea tuberosa (L.) Morong, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 20: 34 (1893) Bletia tuberosa (L.) Ames, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 45: 1 (1932) Heterotypic synonyms Calopogon tuberosus f. albiflorus Britton, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 17: 125 (1890). Calopogon pulchellus Fernald, Rhodora 23: 245 (1921 publ. 1922), nom. illeg. Calopogon pulchellus f. albiflorus (Britton) Fernald, Rhodora 23: 245 (1922) Limodorum tuberosum f. albiflorum House, Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 243-244: 47 (1923) Limodorum tuberosum f. linariifolium House, Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 243-244: 49 (1923) Cathea pulchella f. albiflora (Britton) House, Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 244 (1924) Cathea pulchella f. latifolia (Britton) House, Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 244 (1924) Cathea pulchella f. linearifolia House, Bull. New York State Mus. Nat. Hist. 254: 244 (1924)

Type species

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Botanical illustrations

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  Calopogon tuberosus
  plate 116 in:
  The Botanical Register
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 4,
  (1818)
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  page 79 in:
  Homer D. House:
  Wild Flowers of New York
  (Orchidaceae)
  New York (1918)
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  Calopogon tuberosus
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  Calopogon pulchellus)
  Fig. 369 page 721 in:
  D.S.Correll & H.B.Correll:
  Aquatic and wetland
  plants of southwestern
  United States
  (Orchidaceae)
  Washington (1972)

  
  

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Northern America Western Canada Manitoba. Eastern Canada New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Isle, Québec. North-Central U.S.A. Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin. Northeastern U.S.A. Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Islands, Vermont, West Virginia. South-Central U.S.A. Texas. Southeastern U.S.A. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia. Southern America Caribbean Bahamas, Cuba.

References

Description of taxon

• Britton, N.:., Sterns, E.E. & Poggenburg, J.F., (1888). Preliminary Catalogue of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta Reported as Growing Spontaneously within One Hundred Miles of New York 52.

Selected Bibliography

• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) (2006) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 4 Epidendroideae (Part one); page 22 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198507127
  

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Calopogon tuberosus.

• eMonocot link: Calopogon tuberosus
• Tropicos link: Calopogon tuberosus
• International Plant Names Index link: Calopogon tuberosus

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