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The genus Orchis is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Orchis

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Orchis adenocheila Czerniak.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × algeriensis B.Baumann & H.Baumann	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis anatolica Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × angusticruris Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis anthropophora (L.) All.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × aurunca W.Rossi & Minut.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × bergonii Nanteuil	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × beyrichii (Rchb.f.) A.Kern.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × bispurium (G.Keller) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × bivonae Tod.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis brancifortii Biv.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × buelii Wildh.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × calliantha Renz & Taubenheim	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × celtiberica Pau	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × chabalensis B.Baumann & al.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × clandestina Hautz.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × colemanii Cortesi	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × fitzii Hautz.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis galilaea (Bornm. & M.Schulze) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × hybrida (Lindl.) Boenn. ex Rchb.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis italica Poir.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × klopfensteiniae P.Delforge	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × kretzschmariorum B.Baumann & H.Baumann	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis laeta Steinh.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × ligustica Ruppert	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × loreziana Brügger	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × lucensis Antonetti & Bertolini	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × macra Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis mascula (L.) L.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis militaris L.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis olbiensis Reut. ex Gren.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × palanchonii G.Foelsche & W.Foelsche	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis pallens L.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis patens Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis pauciflora Ten.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × penzigiana A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × permixta Soó	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × petterssonii G.Keller ex Pett.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis picta Raf.	Accepted		TRO
Orchis × plessidiaca Renz	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis provincialis Balb. ex Lam. & DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × pseudoanatolica H.Fleischm.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis punctulata Steven ex Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis purpurea Huds.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis quadripunctata Cirillo ex Ten.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × rassautae (Alleiz.) Alleiz.	Accepted		TRO
Orchis roborowskii Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Orchis × serraniana P.Delforge	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × sezikiana B.Baumann & H.Baumann	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis simia Lam.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis sitiaca (Renz) P.Delforge	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis spitzelii Saut. ex W.D.J.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × spuria Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × stevenii Rchb. f.	Accepted		TRO
Orchis × subpatens E.G.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × thriftiensis Renz	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × tochniana Kreutz & Scraton	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis troodi (Renz) P.Delforge	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis viride-fusca Albov	Accepted		TRO
Orchis × willingiorum B.Baumann & H.Baumann	Accepted		WCSP
Orchis × wulffiana Soó	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 1,016 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Orchis. Of these 61 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 921 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Orchis. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 1,016 species names for the genus Orchis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	61	6.0%
◕	Synonym	759	74.7%
◕	Unplaced	105	10.3%
◕	Unassessed	91	9.0%

All names

The status of the 1,937 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Orchis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	77	4.0%
◕	Synonym	1,657	85.5%
◕	Unplaced	106	5.5%
◕	Unassessed	97	5.0%

Of these names,

• 23 are recorded as invalid
• 82 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,016 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Orchis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	55	670	0	0	725	71.4%
	Medium confidence	4	26	0	0	30	3.0%
	Low confidence	2	63	105	91	261	25.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Orchis, are as follows: