Morphological Characterization and Conservation Status for the Herbarium Specimens of Orchidaceae in Kurdistan Iraq

This study was contacted on Orchidaceae, it is a second largest family in flowering plants, comes after Asteraceae, and approximately has 25,000–30,000 species 750–800 genera the world. included 10 genera, Anacamptis (five species), Androrchis (two Cephalanthera (one Dactylorhiza (three Epipactis Himantoglossum Limodorum Neotinea Ophrys (seven ), Orchis (four species). The name abbreviation of authors plant names follows International Plant Name Index (IPNI) (https://www.ipni.org/). Images type collections most were checked virtual herbaria (https://herbarium.univie.ac.at/database/search.php) JSTOR Global Plants (https://plants.jstor.org/). taxonomic status, geographical distribution, conservation status for all taxa provided.