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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Amerorchis
|accepted_authority=Hultén
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ark. Bot., n. s.
|place=7: 34. 1968
|year=1968
}}
|common_names=Round-leaved orchis;amérorchis;Amérorchis à feuille ronde
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae;Orchidaceae tribe Orchideae;Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Orchidinae;Amerorchis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Orchideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Orchidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Amerorchis]]</div></div>
|etymology=America plus orchis, from the American distribution of this close relative of Eurasian Orchis
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 496
|treatment_page=page 550
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rather succulent. <b>Roots</b> scattered along rhizome, slender, fleshy. <b>Stems</b> scapose. <b>Leaves</b> solitary, basal, spreading, conduplicate; petioles inconspicuous, sheathing or clasping stem; blade orbiculate to broadly elliptic, ovate, obovate, or lance- or oblance-elliptic. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, solitary spikes, lax; floral bracts foliaceous. <b>Flowers</b> few to several, resupinate, showy; lip spurred at base, deeply 3-lobed, middle lobe notched, margins entire to crenate or erose; pollinaria 2; pollinia 2; viscidia within single 2-lobed bursicle; stigma flat, narrowly reniform to obcordate, ends flanking bursicle. <b>Fruits</b> capsules.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Amerorchis
|author=Charles J. Sheviak;Paul M. Catling
|authority=Hultén
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=North America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ark. Bot., n. s.
|publication year=1968
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Orchideae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Orchidinae
|genus=Amerorchis
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