Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Calypso bulbosa var. americana Tipularia discolor Liparis liliifolia	Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi

Herbs, terrestrial. Roots 3–10, from bases of newer corms, spongy. Stems produced in summer, solitary, subapical, opposite leaf, arising from ovate, angular corms. Leaves produced in autumn, persisting over winter, withering in spring, solitary; blade broad, ovate, pleated. Inflorescences lax racemes. Flowers resupinate, bilaterally asymmetric; lip with long, free basal spur; column slightly arcuate; anther terminal, deciduous but retained on pollinaria for short time; pollinia 4, in 2 pairs, yellow, attached to elastic caudicle 1 mm with basal viscidium; stigma entire; rostellum a 2-fid flap enclosing viscidium. Fruits capsules, pendent, ovoid. Seeds 0.5–0.6 mm.

Distribution

Temperate regions, 1 in e North America, 1 in the Himalayas, 1 in Japan

Discussion

Species 3 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Tipularia discolor

"broad" is not a number.