Isotria
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Isotria (Greek, in equal threes). Orchidaceae. Terrestrial plants, with elongated fleshy roots, and scapose stem with a whorl of leaf-like terminal bracts. Flowers solitary or in 2's, erect or ascending; sepals narrow, about equal, longer than petals; lip somewhat 3-lobed, spurless, erect, crested: pollina 2, powdery- granular, tailless.祐pecies 2, E. U. S. See Pogonia. verticillata, Raf. (Pogonia verticillata, Nutt.). Scapes 8-16 in. tall; bracts elliptic to oval, abruptly acuminate: sepals linear, 1-2 in. long, longer than the linear petals; lip erect, 3-lobed. E. U. S. B.B. 1:468. George V. Nash.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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