| Listera cordata (L.) R. Br. | |||
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| Family | Orchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ophrys cordata L. | ||
| Description | Usually about 10 (occasionally up to 30) cm tall, very slender; the 2 leaves in the middle of the stem, cordate to cordate-ovate; raceme glabrous, open, few- flowered; lip deeply divided into 2 linear, spreading lobes, with pair of hornlike teeth at base. Some specimens have greenish flowers, others dark purple to purplish- black flowers; intermediates have not been observed. | ||
| Ecology | Moist, mossy places in woods or meadows. Described from northern Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The form of the leaves of the Alaskan plant differs from that of the typical plant in being broader in comparison to length and in having longer pedicels [var. nephrophylla (Rydb.) Hult.; subsp. nephrophylla (Rydb.) Love & Love; Listera nephrophylla Rydb.]. This is especially noticeable in specimens from the mainland coast. (Var. nephrophylla is an obscure taxon, perhaps a weak coastal race; plants occurring, for example, in eastern Siberia and in the Yukon are the typical L. cordata.) |
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.