Listera convallarioides (Sw.) Nutt.
 
FamilyOrchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae
SynonymsEpipactis convallarioides Sw., Listera eschscholtziana Cham.
DescriptionStem up to 15 cm tall, glandular-pubescent above, from creeping rootstock; leaves 2, ovate; raceme loose; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate, glandular; flowers yellowish-green; lip ciliated in margin, with pair of triangular teeth, the apex dilate and emarginate; capsule glandular.
EcologyMoist places. Described from North America.
Taxonomy
notes
The closely related L. Yatibei Makino and L. brévidens Nevski occur in eastern Asia.
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.