Listera cordata, (L.) R. Br, 1813, 1813

D. M. Moore (ed.), 1980, CCIII Orchidaceae, Flora Europaea, Vol 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae, Camebridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 325-350 : 329-330

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2. L. cordata (L.) R. Br., View in CoL LSID

loc. cit. (1813)

. Rhizome slender, creeping. Stem (4-5-)6-20 cm, erect, glabrous below, sparsely pubescent above, with 1 -2 brownish, membranous basal sheaths.

Leaves 2(-A), 1 -2-5 cm, ovate-deltate, mucronate. Raceme 1 -5-6 cm; flowers 4-12, shortly pedicellate; bracts minute, triangular. Perianth-segments 2-2-5 mm, oblong-elliptical, obtuse; outer green, the median somewhat cucullate, the lateral and inner narrower, directed forward, green outside, reddish inside. Labellum 3-5^L5 mm, obcuneate, divided to about the middle into 2 diverging linear lobes, purplish; basal lobes linear-lanceo late. 2n = 38, 40.

Damp woods (mainly coniferous) and moorland.

N. & C. Europe, extending southwards to the Pyrenees, N. Appen- nini and S. Bulgaria.

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