Spiranthes bightensis M.C.Pace

, Phytotaxa 498(3): 164 (2021).
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77219013-1
Publication
Phytotaxa
Collation
498(3): 164
Date of Publication
30 Apr 2021
Family as entered in IPNI
Orchidaceae

Type Information

Collector Team
Pace 608
Locality
Maryland: Worcester County, Bainbridge Park pond, Ocean Pines, off of Beaconhill Rd., ca. 3.5 km west of Isle of Wight Bay
Collection Date
23 Oct 2013
Type Herbaria
holotype NY
isotype K
isotype US
Distribution Of Types
Delaware (Southeastern U.S.A., Northern America)
Maryland (Southeastern U.S.A., Northern America)
New Jersey (Northeastern U.S.A., Northern America)
New York (Northeastern U.S.A., Northern America)
Virginia (Southeastern U.S.A., Northern America)

Nomenclatural Notes

[epublished]

Remarks

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.498.3.2 Name from the Old English / Anglo-Saxon 'byht', meaning bend or bay, a bight is a shallowly curved coastline or extremely wide bay; its use here refers to the Mid-Atlantic and New York Bights, which stretches from the Nantucket Shoals off southern New England southward to Cape Lookout, North Carolina.