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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Corallorhiza bentleyi
|accepted_authority=Freudenstein
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=9: 511, fig. 1. 1999
|year=1999
}}
|common_names=Bentley’s coral-root
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae;Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Corallorhizinae;Corallorhiza;Corallorhiza bentleyi
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Corallorhizinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Corallorhiza]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Corallorhiza bentleyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 633, 635
|treatment_page=page 634
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>reddish to yellowish, to 20 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: racemes lax. <b>Flowers</b> 2–20, cleistogamous, inconspicuous; sepals and petals reddish to yellow, 3-veined; dorsal sepal lanceolate, 5.9–6.1 × 2.1–2.5 mm; lateral sepals lanceolate, somewhat falcate, strongly boat-shaped, 5.5–6.1 × 2.1–2.5 mm; petals narrowly ovate, weakly boat-shaped, 5–5.8 × 2.2–3 mm, apex acute; lip unlobed, ovate, 4.9–5.7 mm, margins involute, thickened, prominent, apex acute; callus formed from 2 connate lamellae at base of lip, ± 1.2 as long as lip, 2.5–2.8 × 1.5–1.8 mm; column curved forward, 3–3.8 × 0.8–1 mm, with small depression adaxially at base; pedicellate ovary narrowly obovoid, 6–9 × 2.5–3 mm; mentum absent. <b>Capsules</b> obovoid-ellipsoid.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid–late July.
|habitat=Appalachian deciduous forest, often at edges of forest in somewhat disturbed sites
|elevation=800 m
|distribution=Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Corallorhiza bentleyi</i> appears to be most similar to the small Mexican variants of <i>C. striata</i> that have been called C. involuta Greenman but were most recently recognized as <i>C. striata</i> var. involuta (Greenman) Freudenstein (J. V. Freudenstein 1999).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=freudenstein1999a
|text=Freudenstein, J. V. 1999. A new species of Corallorhiza (Orchidaceae) from West Virginia, U.S.A. Novon 9: 511–513.
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name=Corallorhiza bentleyi
|author=
|authority=Freudenstein
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid–late July.
|habitat=Appalachian deciduous forest, often at edges of forest in somewhat disturbed sites
|elevation=800 m
|distribution=Va.;W.Va.
|reference=freudenstein1999a
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=1999
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1301.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Corallorhizinae
|genus=Corallorhiza
|species=Corallorhiza bentleyi
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