Corallorhiza maculata (Raf.) Raf. 1817
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Plants and Flowers in situ Colorado
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Common Name Spotted Coral-Root
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found from Canada south to Guatemala in moist shady woods on rocky slopes in rich decaying humus and rotten leaves at elevations of 2500 to 3700 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing, mycoheterotrophic, leafless terrestrial, blooming on an erect, 6 to 30" [15 to 75 cm] long, racemose, many [to 50] flowered, reddish inflorescence arising out of the ground occuring mostly in the summer through fall.
Synonyms *Cladorhiza maculata Raf. 1817; Corallorhiza grabhamii Cockerell 1903; Corallorhiza leimbachiana Suksd. 1906; Corallorhiza maculata Greene 1906; Corallorhiza maculata f. aurea P.M.Br. 1995; Corallorhiza maculata f flavida (M.Peck) Farwell 1927; Corallorhiza maculata f. immaculata (M.Peck) J.T.Howell 1970; Corallorhiza maculata f. intermedia (Farw.) Farw. 1927; Corallorhiza maculata f. punicea (Bartlett) Weath. & J.Adams 1945; Corallorhiza maculata f. rubra P.M.Br. 1995; Corallorhiza maculata subsp. occidentalis (Lindl.) Cockerell 1916; Corallorhiza maculata var. flavida (M.Peck) Cockerell 1916; Corallorhiza maculata var. fusca Bartlett 1922; Corallorhiza maculata var. immaculata M.Peck 1950; Corallorhiza maculata var. intermedia Farw. 1917; Corallorhiza maculata var. mexicana (Lindl.) Freudenst. 1997; Corallorhiza maculata var. occidentalis (Lindl.) Ames 1924; Corallorhiza maculata var. ozettensis Tischer 2001; Corallorhiza maculata var. punicea Bartlett 1922; Corallorhiza mexicana Lindley 1840; Corallorhiza multiflora Nutt. 1823; Corallorhiza multiflora var. flavida M.Peck 1897; Corallorhiza multiflora var. occidentalis Lindl. 1840; Corallorhiza multiflora var. sulphurea Suksd. 1906; Neottia mexicana (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Neottia multiflora (Nutt.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 5 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 photo; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 drawing/photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 11 1979 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 46 No 6 1982 photo fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993 as C maculata var occidentalis; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 4 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 #5 1994 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 #5 1994 as C maculata var flavida photo fide; Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 drawing/photo fide; Algunas Orquideas de Oaxaca Suarez 2004 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 10 2008 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 2010 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #2 2011 Photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #2 2011 as fma flavida Photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #2 2011 as C maculata fma immaculata Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #4 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #1 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #1 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide;
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Corallorhiza maculata (Rafinesque) Rafinesque var. occidentalis (Lindley) Ames forma immaculata (Peck) Howell
Photo courtesy of Joseph Dougherty
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Common Name Western Spottted Coral-Root
A variety of the previous species.
Synonyms Corallorrhiza grabhamii Cockerell 1903; Corallorrhiza leimbachiana Suksd. 1906; Corallorhiza maculata f. immaculata (M.Peck) J.T.Howell 1970; Corallorhiza maculata f. intermedia (Farw.) Farw. 1927; Corallorhiza maculata f. punicea (Bartlett) Weath. & J.Adams 1945;
~Corallorhiza maculata var. immaculata M.Peck 1950; Corallorhiza maculata var. intermedia Farw. 1917; Corallorhiza maculata var. punicea Bartlett 1922; Corallorrhiza multiflora var. occidentalis Lindl. 1840;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 4 1993; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #2 2011 Photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #2 2011 as fma punicea Photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #2 2011 as Fma intermedia Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo good;
