Difference between revisions of "Coeloglossum"

Hartman

Handb. Skand. Fl., 329. 1820.

Common names: Frog-orchis long-bracted orchid
Etymology: Greek koilos, hollow, and glossa, tongue
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 580. Mentioned on page 496.
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Revision as of 17:41, 18 September 2019

Herbs, perennial, rather succulent. Roots both slender and palmately divided tuberoids, fascicled, fleshy. Stems leafy. Leaves several, alternate, ascending to recurved, not petiolate; blade obovate to oblanceolate to lanceolate, base sheathing. Inflorescences terminal, spicate racemes, lax to rather dense; floral bracts prominently exserted, foliaceous, often large. Flowers few to many, resupinate; lip notched to 3-lobed; lateral lobes prominent, middle lobe reduced, base elongated into short, saccate to scrotiform spur; pollinaria 2; pollinia 2; viscidia enclosed within membrane; stigmas 2-labiate, concave. Fruits capsules, ascending, ellipsoid.

Distribution

Circumpolar.

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.