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downy rattlesnake-plantain, goodyérie pubescente

Leaves

blade distinctly lined with white or greenish white on veins throughout, broadly elliptic to broadly ovate, 2.1–6.2 × 1.3–3 cm, apex acute or obtuse.

Inflorescences

10–57-flowered, cylindric (equally dense on all sides);

peduncle 11–35 cm.

Flowers

lateral sepals 3.1–5.3 mm;

petals distinct;

hood 3.6–5.7 mm;

lip scrotiform, 2.5–4.2 × 2.2–3.5 mm, apex reflexed, outer surface slightly tuberculate, inner surface with somewhat thickened veins, without glandular processes;

anther inflexed, immersed in cup-shaped clinandrium, apex blunt;

pollinia blunt;

rostellum with marginal notch 0.1–0.4 mm deep;

viscidium orbiculate.

2n

= 26.

Goodyera pubescens

Phenology Flowering mid Jul–early Sep.
Habitat Almost any wooded habitat with acid surface conditions, most frequent on moist humus soils in shady, upland woods of hemlock, pine, oak, or maple, less frequent in lowland woods, bogs, swamps
Elevation 0–1600 m (0–5200 ft)
Distribution
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AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; NS; ON; QC
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Discussion

Goodyera pubescens is very different in its lip and column morphology, phenolic constituents, and chromosome number (2n = 26) from other North American Goodyera species, indicating that it is not closely related to them.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 26, p. 515.
Parent taxa Orchidaceae > subfam. Orchidoideae > tribe Cranichideae > subtribe Goodyerinae > Goodyera
Sibling taxa
G. oblongifolia, G. repens, G. tesselata
Synonyms Neottia pubescens, Peramium pubescens
Name authority (Willdenow) R. Brown: in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew. 5: 198. (1813)
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