Corallorrhiza maculata subsp. mertensiana (Bong.) Calder & Taylor
 
FamilyOrchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae
SynonymsCorallorrhiza mertensiana Bong.
DescriptionPlant reddish or brownish-purple, erect, glabrous, lacking green leaves, from coral-like underground rhizome; flowers purplish; sepals 3-nerved, linear, 9-12 mm long when fully expanded, widely spreading; lip oblong to broadly obovate, 3- nerved, with a pair of teeth near base.
EcologyMoist, coniferous woods. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. maculata,
Hultén's Flora About

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.