Definition of Genus Corallorhiza

1. Noun. Genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; widely distributed in temperate regions.

Exact synonyms: Corallorhiza
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Orchidaceae, Orchid Family, Orchidaceae
Member holonyms: Coral Root

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Corallorhiza

genus Conoclinium
genus Conopodium
genus Conradina
genus Consolida
genus Contopus
genus Conuropsis
genus Convallaria
genus Convolvulus
genus Conyza
genus Copernicia
genus Coprinus
genus Coptis
genus Coracias
genus Coragyps
genus Corallorhiza (current term)
genus Corchorus
genus Cordaites
genus Cordia
genus Cordyline
genus Cordylus
genus Coregonus
genus Coreopsis
genus Coriandrum
genus Corixa
genus Cornus
genus Corokia
genus Coronilla
genus Corozo
genus Cortaderia

Literary usage of Genus Corallorhiza

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Native Orchids: A Series of Drawings from Nature of All the Species by William Hamilton Gibson, Helena Dewey Leeming Jelliffe (1905)
"This Coralroot differs structurally from the genus Corallorhiza in many ways, one being that there is not even the rudiment of the spur ..."

2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"Five years later, in discussing the genus Corallorhiza, Nuttall * again used the name C. hiemalis, ..."

3. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"There are also 2 imperfect anthers, and three pollinia. It is in fact a very distinct genus. The genus Corallorhiza, or Coral-root, from its branching, ..."

4. The Orchids of New England: A Popular Monograph by Henry Ives Baldwin (1884)
"The genus Corallorhiza (Coral-root), northern or extra-tropical in range and containing about ten species, has four representatives in the North-eastern ..."

5. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed by Edwin James (1823)
"... placed by Mr. Nuttall under the genus corallorhiza of Haller, occurs in the fertile soils of the Mississippi, with two radical leaves, as described by ..."

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