View source for Orthilia

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Orthilia
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Autik. Bot.,
|place=103. 1840 ,
}}
|common_names=Side-bells or one-sided wintergreen;pyrole unilatérale
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae;Orthilia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Orthilia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek orthos, straight, and ilium, side or flank, possibly alluding to secund inflorescence
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 374, 378
|treatment_page=page 388
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, chlorophyllous, autotrophic. <b>Stems</b> decumbent or erect, glabrous or papillose, especially distally. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, alternate or pseudoverticillate in (1–)2–4 whorls; petiole present; blade not maculate, ovate to broadly ovate or elliptic to orbiculate, subcoriaceous, margins entire or undulate to serrulate, rarely serrate, plane or, rarely, obscurely revolute, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, often lax in bud or flower, usually erect in fruit, (secund); peduncular bracts usually present; inflorescence bracts free from pedicels. <b>Pedicels</b> recurved to reflexed in fruit; bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric, spreading or nodding; sepals 5, connate proximally, often obscurely so, calyx lobes broadly triangular to ovate; petals 5, distinct, greenish white, yellowish white, or white, with 2 inconspicuous basal tubercles, corolla suburceolate; intrastaminal nectary disc absent; stamens 10, included or barely exserted; filaments broad proximally, gradually narrowed medially, slender distally, glabrous; anthers oblong, without awns, without tubules, dehiscent by 2 round to elliptic pores; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary imperfectly 5-locular; placentation intruded-parietal; style (exserted), straight or nearly so, expanded distally or not; stigma 5-ridged, without subtending ring of hairs. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, pendulous, dehiscence loculicidal, cobwebby tissue exposed by splitting valves at dehiscence. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 1000, fusiform, winged. <b>x</b> = 19.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala);Eurasia;circumboreal.
|discussion=<p>Species 1: North America, Mexico, Central America (Guatemala), Eurasia; circumboreal.</p><!--
--><p>The basal tubercles on the petals of <i>Orthilia</i> are unique among Monotropoideae. On fresh or rehydrated flowers they are about 0.2–0.3 mm in diameter and 0.1–0.2 mm tall. The tubercles appear as obscure thickenings on dried specimens. H. F. Copeland (1947) found no evidence of glandular activity associated with these tubercles and speculated that they may influence the opening of the flowers, as do the lodicules of grasses.</p><!--
--><p>Species 1</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Orthilia
|author=Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America (Guatemala);Eurasia;circumboreal.
|reference=None
|publication title=Autik. Bot.,
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_732.xml
|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae
|genus=Orthilia
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae]]