| Listera caurina Piper | |||
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| Family | Orchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ophrys caurina (Piper) Rydb. | ||
| Description | Stem up to 20 cm tall, glandular-pubescent above, from creeping rootstock; leaves 2, ovate, somewhat acute; raceme loose, bracts small, ovate-lanceolate, nearly glabrous; flowers small, yellowish-green; lip glabrous in margin, rounded or retuse at apex, with pair of small teeth near base; ovary glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Coniferous forests. |
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.