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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Epipactis
|accepted_authority=Zinn
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cat. Pl. Hort. Gott.,
|place=85. 1757
|year=1757
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Neottieae;Orchidaceae (tribe Neottieae) subtribe Limodorinae;Epipactis
|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 Neottieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Neottieae) subtribe Limodorinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Epipactis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Ancient Greek name used by Theophrastus for plant used to curdle milk
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 496
|treatment_page=page 584
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, terrestrial, glabrous or puberulent to glabrate. <b>Roots</b> from short rhizome, fibrous. <b>Stems</b> leafy. <b>Leaves</b> several, alternate, sheathing, plicate, grading into floral bracts. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal racemes; floral bracts leaflike, often exceeding flowers. <b>Flowers</b> few to many, resupinate, pedicellate; perianth free, spreading or loosely connivent, subequal; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, concave; petals often shorter than sepals; lip sessile at base of column, fleshy, divided into 2 parts by central constriction, proximal part (hypochile) deeply concave to saccate, distal part (epichile) triangular to oblanceolate, with pair of calli near base; column curved over lip, broadened distally, short; anther terminal, sessile; pollinia 4, mealy. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, pendent to spreading, obovoid to ellipsoid.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Eurasia;North Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 25 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lip 3-lobed, distal part linear-oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate-oblanceolate; lateral sepals 16–24 mm.
|[[Epipactis gigantea|Epipactis gigantea]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lip not 3-lobed, distal part triangular-ovate to broadly triangular; lateral sepals 6–13 mm.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Lip 9–12 mm, distal part triangular-ovate, calli at base not rugose; ovary glabrous; flowers green to pink to purple to yellowish.
|[[Epipactis helleborine|Epipactis helleborine]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Lip 5.5–6.5 mm, distal part broadly triangular, calli at base rugose; ovary tomentose; flowers dark wine to cranberry red.
|[[Epipactis atrorubens|Epipactis atrorubens]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Epipactis
|author=Paul Martin Brown;George W. Argus
|authority=Zinn
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Eurasia;North Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Cat. Pl. Hort. Gott.,
|publication year=1757
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1193.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Neottieae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Neottieae) subtribe Limodorinae
|genus=Epipactis
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