View source for Mitella diphylla

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|accepted_name=Mitella diphylla
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 406. 1753 ,
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|common_names=Two-leaf mitrewort;mitrelle à deux feuilles
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Mitella;Mitella diphylla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mitella]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mitella diphylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 109
|treatment_page=page 110
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not stoloniferous. <b>Flowering</b> stems 10–45(–51) cm. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1.8–18 cm, medium and long stipitate-glandular, longer hairs retrorse, white or tan; blade ovate to broadly ovate, ± as long as or longer than wide, 1.4–8.5 × 1.4–9.6 cm, margins shallowly to prominently 3- or 5-lobed, crenate or dentate, irregularly to regularly ciliate, apex of terminal lobe acute, rarely obtuse, surfaces subglabrous or sparsely short and long stipitate-glandular; cauline leaves 2, mid cauline or distal, opposite or subopposite, subsessile to short-petiolate, blade (1.1–)1.6–8 × 0.7–6.5 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–5, remotely or closely 5–22(–27)-flowered, 1 flower per node, not secund, 10–45(–51) cm, sparsely to densely spreading or retrorsely long stipitate-glandular proximally, short stipitate-glandular distally. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–3 mm, short stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium broadly campanulate, 1–1.6 × 2–3.4 mm; sepals spreading, greenish white or yellowish green, triangular, 1–1.3 × 0.8–1.1 mm; petals white, 9–11(–15)-lobed, 2–4 mm, lobes linear, lateral lobes spreading or ascending; stamens 10, opposite and alternate with sepals; filaments white, 0.2–0.3 mm; anthers 0.1–0.3 × 0.1–0.2 mm; ovary nearly superior; styles divergent, flattened, 0.1–0.2 mm; stigmas unlobed. <b>Seeds</b> dark reddish brown or blackish, 1.2–1.6 mm, nearly smooth. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Rich woods, hardwoods on ravine slopes
|elevation=300-2000 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>A decoction from whole plants of Mitella diphylla was used by the Iroquois as an emetic, eye medicine, and good-luck charm; seeds were used by the Menominee as sacred items in medicine dances (D. E. Moerman 1998).</p><!--
--><p>Mitella intermedia T. A. Bruhin ex Small & Rydberg is a presumed interspecific hybrid between M. diphylla and M. nuda. It has been reported from New York and Wisconsin.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mitella diphylla
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Rich woods, hardwoods on ravine slopes
|elevation=300-2000 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_217.xml
|genus=Mitella
|species=Mitella diphylla
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