Orchid

family of plants
Class type of: flowering plant Q25308

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
taxon
Subclass of
flowering plant
CITES Appendix
Appendix II of CITES
Has fruit type
capsule, berry
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P14541
2YSlzQ
Start time
-80000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
Studied by
orchidology[28]
Taxon common name
orchideeën, орхидеја, วงศ์กล้วยไม้, 兰科, orchids, ラン科[21][22][23][24][25][26]
Taxon name
Orchidaceae[8]
Taxon rank
family[3]
Taxonomic type
Orchis[9]
This taxon is source of
orchid flower, orchid fragrance[19][20]
🏷️ Also known as
en Orchidaceae en Orchid en orchids en orchid ar السحلبية ar أوركيد ar سحلبية ar الأوركيد ar سحلب cs Orchideje cs vstavačovité cs Orchidejovité cs Orchije cs Orchidej da gøgeurtfamilien da gøgeurt-familien da Frueskofamilien da Fruesko-familien da Cypripediaceae da orkidé-familien
🔖 Identifiers · 91
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85095334
GND ID
4043721-8
OpenAlex ID
C2781370656
APNI ID
54444
AccessScience ID
474500
Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain Dictionary and Glossary of Terms entry
orchid
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300390544, 300311478
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/9922
BOLD Systems taxon ID
124684
Baidu Tieba name
兰花
Show all 91 identifiers +79
Banglapedia ID (Bengali)
অর্কিড
Banglapedia ID (English)
Orchid
Belgian Species List ID
57930
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11932898q
BioLib taxon ID
3388
CPNI ID
027
Catalogue of Life ID
DPL
Dyntaxa ID
2002692
EPPO Code
1ORCF
Edition humboldt digital Flora ID
Orchidaceae
Elhuyar ZTH ID
029001
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
327824
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
E0011719
Encyclopedia of Life ID
8156
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
plant/orchid
Flora of Australia ID (new)
Orchidaceae
Flora of China ID
10638
Flora of Israel Online plant ID
systematics/orchidaceae
Flora of North America taxon ID
10638
FloraBase ID
22787
Fossilworks taxon ID
55864
Freebase ID
/m/05pjb
GBIF taxon ID
7689
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
orquidacies
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0128300
Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
9686
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
orkidé
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2695544
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
orkhidnye-e8304a
Harper's tag
orchids
INaturalist taxon ID
47217
IPNI plant ID
30000046-2
IRMNG ID
114451
ITIS TSN
43397
KBpedia ID
Orchid
Krugosvet article (archived)
nauka_i_tehnika/biologiya/ORHIDNIE.html
MeSH descriptor ID
D029595
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2781370656, 2910456831
Montana Plant Life URL
montana.plant-life.org
Museum-digital tag ID
87k (29k–87k, n=3)
NALT ID
4598
NBIC scientific name ID
99480
NBN System Key
NBNSYS0000160580
NCBI taxonomy ID
4747
NDL Authority ID
00569277
NL CR AUT ID
ph116637
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007550830805171
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
119111
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
f0c1993e-e036-4074-bdae-936c9854ef2b
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
531210
Open Tree of Life ID
568878
OregonFlora taxon ID
176
PM20 ware ID
143633
Pladias ID
108
Plant Illustrations taxon ID
13288
Plantarium ID
41570
Plants of the World Online ID
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30000046-2
Queensland Biota ID
18070
Quora topic ID
Orchids
Reflora ID
FB179
SVKKL authority ID
h0007842-vstavacovite
Tela Botanica ID
100920
Topic's main category
Category:Orchidaceae
Tropicos ID
42000388
VASCAN ID
181
Vikidia article ID
fr:Orchidée
Washington Flora Checklist ID
131892
Watson & Dallwitz family ID
orchidac
WoRMS-ID for taxa
414854
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
12061915-n
World Flora Online ID
wfo-7000000429
YSO ID
9158

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Summary

Orchid is a taxon[1]. Orchid is a type of flowering plant[2].

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Discovery and Description

Things named for Orchid include orchid[29], a color[30].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Orchid include orchid[29], a color[30].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . fsus.ncbg.unc.edu. Retrieved . fsus.ncbg.unc.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . panmai.com. panmai.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . A dataset on catalogue of alien plants in China. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants. wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2YSlzQ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → orchids
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: orchids, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289956869|orchids (#289956869)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  3. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0007842-vstavacovite
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0007842-vstavacovite, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at URL → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ YSO ID: 9158, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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