Pyrola chlorantha, Swartz

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 3

3. P. chlorantha Swartz , op. cit. 31: 190 (1810)

(P. virens Koerte, P. virescens auct.).

2 By T. G. Tutin.

3 Edit. D. A. Webb.

Stem 10-30 cm. Leaves O-5-2(-3) x 0-5-2- 5 cm, pale green above, darker beneath, oblong-obovate to orbicular, crenulate; petiole longer than lamina. Bracts linear-lanceolate, equalling pedicels. Flowers 8-12 mm in diameter, broadly campanulate. Calyx-lobes 1 -5-2 mm, deltate, acute. Petals yellowish-green. Anthers 2-3-2-7 mm. Style 6-7 mm, expanded into a disc below the stigma, exserted, curved. 2n = 46. Mainly in coniferous woods. Most of Europe, but rare in the west and absent from most of the islands. Au Be Bu Co Cz Da Fe Ga Ge Gr He Hs Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, K, E) Su.