| Amerorchis rotundifolia (Banks) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Orchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Orchis rotundifolia Banks. | ||
| Description | Stoloniferous, with thick roots, glabrous; scape naked, with few, rarely up to 10 flowers in a lax raceme; single orbicular to elliptical subbasal leaf; floral bracts shorter than capsule; sepals and upper petals pale rose-colored; lip white, with few purple spots, 3-lobed, with larger, dilated terminal lobe, more or less 2-cleft in apex; spur slender, much shorter than lip; capsule elliptical. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods, in McKinley Park to at Jeast 600 meters. Described from Hudson Bay. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.