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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
- jumping orchid orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme; when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected
- coeloglossum viride orchid having hooded long-bracted green to yellow-green flowers suffused with purple
- twayblade orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia
- coeloglossum bracteatum orchid with broad ovate leaves and long-bracted green very irregular flowers
- funnel-crest rosebud orchid orchid of northeastern United States with magenta-pink flowers having funnel-shaped lip; sometimes placed in genus Pogonia
- crested coral root orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins; southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States
- rosebud orchid orchid of central and northern South America having 1- to 3-blossomed racemes of large showy rose-colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Pogonia
- epidendrum tampense orchid of Florida and the Bahamas having showy brightly colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Epidendrum
- lesser twayblade 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