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Hexalectris spicata, the spiked crested coralroot, [2] is a terrestrial, myco-heterotrophic orchid lacking chlorophyll and subsisting entirely on nutrients obtained from mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. It is native to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Coahuila.
Hexalectris (crested coralroot) [1] is a genus of the family Orchidaceae, comprising 10 known species of fully myco-heterotrophic orchids. [2] These species are found in North America, with the center of diversity in northern Mexico. [3] None of the species are particularly common. [4]
This is a list of genera in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), originally according to The Families of Flowering Plants - L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz.This list is adapted regularly with the changes published in the Orchid Research Newsletter which is published twice a year by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
A blue orchid from the Andes region of South America, each of these rare plants grows 6 to 12 leaves and has flowers that can reach as large as 4 inches in diameter. Boella coelestis
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Hexalectris colemanii, or Coleman's crested coralroot, [2] is a terrestrial, myco-heterotrophic orchid lacking chlorophyll and subsisting entirely on nutrients obtained from mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. It is a very rare species endemic to southern Arizona, known from only three counties (Pima, Cochise and Santa Cruz).
Hexalectris grandiflora, the largeflower crested coralroot [2] or giant coral-root, is a species of orchid native to Mexico from Chihuahua south to Oaxaca, as well as to western and north-central Texas. It is a myco-heterotrophic species, lacking chlorophyll and subsisting entirely on nutrients obtained by fungi in the soil. [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Hexalectris revoluta, the Chisos Mountain crested coralroot, [1] is a terrestrial, myco-heterotrophic orchid lacking chlorophyll and subsisting entirely on nutrients obtained from mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. It is closely related to H. colemanii; the two are regarded by some authors as varieties of the same species.