| Moneses uniflora (L.) Gray | |||
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| Family | Pyrolaceae — APG family: Ericaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Moneses grandiflora S. F. Gray., Pyrola uniflora L. | ||
| Common name | single delight | ||
| Description | Stem from thin, creeping caudex; leaves small, light green, obovate, rounded, serrate; stem mostly with single bract, 1-flowered; flowers drooping in anthesis, fragrant; petals 5, white; style long, straight; stigma stout, with 5 lobes; capsule round, erect. | ||
| Ecology | Woods. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Specimens from the coastal region belong to var. reticulata (Nutt.) Blake [Mone- ses reticulata Nutt.; M. uniflora subsp. reticulata (Nutt.) Calder & Taylor], with somewhat acute, more denticulated and reticulated leaves. |
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.