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Coeloglossum
Handb. Skand. Fl., 329. 1820.
Common names: Frog-orchis long-bracted orchid
Etymology: Greek koilos, hollow, and glossa, tongue
| Taxon | Illustrator ⠉ | |
|---|---|---|
 | Dactylorhiza majalis var. junialis Coeloglossum viride Habenaria odontopetala Habenaria quinqueseta | Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi |
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.
Discussion
Species 1.
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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... more about "Coeloglossum"
separating +
self-pollination +
sheathing +
indehiscent +
Circumpolar +
absent +
foliaceous +
exserted +
large +
symmetric +
resupinate +
epigynous +
few;many +
bisexual +
ascending +
ellipsoid +
fleshy +
3-carpellate +
connate +
prominent +
connate +
not petiolate +
alternate +
ascending;recurved +
modified +
differing in form and color +
reduced +
compound +
inferior +
anatropous +
numerous +
minute +
small +
dense +
flowering +
modified +
petaloid +
subdivided +
fertile +
reduced +
Handb. Skand. Fl., +
1820 +
spicate +
dense +
creeping +
fascicled +
fleshy +
numerous +
greener +
foliaceous +
longitudinal +
various +
opposite +
adnate +
1;2 +
leafy +
modified +
delicate +
proliferous +
2-labiate +
concave +
absent +
adnate +
Coeloglossum +
Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Orchidinae +
genus +
stolonoid +
divided +
multilayered +
spongy +
perennial +
subterranean +
succulent +