Epipactis
Broad-leaved helleborine ( Epipactis helleborine )
The Wurzen helleborine ( Epipactis ) are a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family ( Orchidaceae).
- 4.1 Notes and references
- 4.2 Literature
Name
The name " Epipactis " was first used by Theophrastus, a philosopher and botanist of ancient Greece. However, both he, and botanist of the Middle Ages, such as Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Augustin- de Candolle Pyrame and Victor Albrecht von Haller did not use the name for the current orchids genus Epipactis, but for other plant species. The name is still used today as Epipactis orchids genus was erected in 1757 by Johann Gottfried Zinn, a professor of botany at Göttingen.
Description
There are perennial herbaceous plants.
System
The first description of the genus Epipactis by the German botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn was published in 1757 in his Catalogus Plantarum Horti Academici et Agri Gottingensis.
Sections and species
The genus Epipactis 1842 divided by Thilo Irmisch with their then five known species in two sections. A reclassification has made in the 1990s, Karl Robatsch ( see there).
Erich Klein took a 2005 reorganization of the genus ago:
- Section Arthrochilum
- Marsh helleborine ( Epipactis palustris)
- Section Cymbochilium
- Eastern marsh helleborine ( Epipactis veratrifolia )
- Section Epipactis
- Under section Epipactis
- Epipactis degenii
- Epipactis densifolia
- Kurzblättrige helleborine ( Epipactis distans )
- Epipactis duriensis
- Epipactis guegelii
- Broad-leaved helleborine ( Epipactis helleborine )
- Epipactis helleborine subsp. latina
- Epipactis helleborine subsp. Neerlandica
- Epipactis helleborine subsp. tremolsii
- Epipactis heraclea
- Epipactis lapidocampi
- Epipactis turcica
- Under section Porphyreochromatae
- Epipactis bithynica
- Epipactis lusitanica
- Epipactis meridionalis
- Epipactis pollinensis
- Epipactis pseudopurpurata
- Epipactis rechingeri
- Cypriot helleborine ( Epipactis troodi )
- Violet helleborine ( Epipactis purpurata )
- Under section Autogamepactis
- Epipactis aspromontana
- Epipactis bugacensis
- Epipactis campeadori
- Cretan helleborine ( Epipactis cretica )
- Epipactis danubialis
- Epipactis dunensis
- Epipactis dunensis subsp. tynensis
- Epipactis flaminia
- Epipactis futakii
- Epipactis greuteri
- Epipactis komoricensis
- Thin-lipped helleborine ( Epipactis leptochila )
- Miller helleborine ( Epipactis muelleri )
- Epipactis nauosaensis
- Overlooked helleborine ( Epipactis neglecta, Epipactis leptochila subsp. Neglecta )
- Epipactis nordeniorum
- Epipactis olympica
- Epipactis peitzii
- Epipactis place tina
- Epipactis pontica
- Epipactis provincialis
- Rhone- leaved helleborine ( Epipactis rhodanensis, Epipactis bugacensis subsp. Rhodanensis )
- Epipactis sancta ( Epipactis dunensis subsp. Sancta )
- Epipactis schubertiorum
- Epipactis voethii
- Section Ripariphilae
- Same helleborine ( Epipactis albensis )
- Epipactis confusa
- Epipactis fageticola
- Epipactis fibrinous
- Epipactis gracilis
- Epipactis mecsekensis
- Epipactis Moravica
- Persian helleborine ( Epipactis persica )
- Grünblütige helleborine ( Epipactis phyllanthes )
- Epipactis stellifera
- Epipactis tallosii
- Section Rhytidochilum
- Brown-red helleborine ( Epipactis atrorubens )
- Dichtblütige helleborine ( Epipactis condensata )
- Epipactis kleinii
- Small-leaved helleborine ( Epipactis microphylla )
- Epipactis spiridonovii
- Epipactis subclausa
Other types:
- Epipactis africana
- Epipactis atromarginata
- Epipactis autumnalis
- Epipactis flava
- Epipactis gigantea (presumably section Cymbochilium )
- Epipactis ioessa
- Epipactis mairei
- Epipactis magnibracteata
- Epipactis ohwii
- Epipactis savelliana
- Epipactis tenii
- Epipactis thesaurensis
- Epipactis thunbergii (presumably section Arthrochilum )
- Epipactis ulugurica
- Epipactis xanthophaeum
Genus Arthrochilum
Dariusz L. Szlachetko considered the differences in the sections Arthrochilum and Cymbochilium to section Epipactis sufficient to raise these sections under the name Arthrochilum to the rank of genus. This affects the types Epipactis africana, Epipactis atromarginata, Epipactis flava, Epipactis gigantea Epipactis handelii, Epipactis mairei, Epipactis royleana, Epipactis schensiana, Epipactis setchuanica, Epipactis thunbergii, Epipactis ulugurica, Epipactis veratrifolia, Epipactis wilsonii, Epipactis xanthophaea.