| Hammarbya paludosa (L.) Ktze. | |||
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| Family | Orchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ophrys paludosa L., Malaxis paludosa (L.) Sw. | ||
| Description | Small, inconspicuous plant; scape filiform from a globose corm, surrounded by whitish scales; leaves 2-3 at base of stem; raceme very slender; flowers small, yel- lowish-green; petals half as long as sepals; lip ovate, about 2 mm long, much shorter than the lateral sepals, curved upward. | ||
| Ecology | Wet Sphagnum bogs, quagmires. Described from Sweden. |
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.