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nounany of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
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- chatterbox orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf
- cephalanthera rubra orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers
- listera cordata orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rust-colored flowers with the lip flushed mauve; Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland
- tongueflower orchid having blue to purple flowers with tongue-shaped or strap-shaped protuberances (calli) at the lip base
- texas purple spike orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas
- habenaria dilatata orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America
- giant helleborine orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf
- oncidium papilio kramerianum orchid of South and Central America having flowers similar to but smaller than Psychopsis papilio; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium
- purple fringeless orchis orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions
- cleistes rosea orchid of central and northern South America having 1- to 3-blossomed racemes of large showy rose-colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Pogonia