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|accepted_name=Piperia elongata
|accepted_authority=Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=28: 270. 1901
|year=1901
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Habenaria elegans var. elata
|authority=Jepson
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Habenaria unalascensis subsp. elata
|authority=(Jepson) Calder & Roy L. Taylor
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Habenaria unalascensis var. elata
|authority=(Jepson) Correll
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Piperia elegans var. elata
|authority=(Jepson) Luer
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae;Orchidaceae tribe Orchideae;Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Orchidinae;Piperia;Piperia elongata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Orchideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Orchidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Piperia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Piperia elongata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 572, 575, 577
|treatment_page=page 576
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>(9–)14–130 cm. <b>Stems</b> ± uniform toward tuberoid, 1–12 mm diam. distal to leaves; bracts 4–22. <b>Leaves</b> prostrate; blade 7.5–32 × 1–8.4 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> sparsely to densely flowered, (3.5–)6–70 cm; rachis usually longer than peduncle; bracts 5–20 mm. <b>Flowers</b> green; fragrance when present nocturnal, faint, harsh to honeylike; sepals 2.4–6 × 1.1–3 mm; dorsal sepal ovate; lateral sepals spreading to recurved, ± obliquely lanceolate to oblong; petals erect-spreading, ± falcate, ovate-attenuate, 3–6 × 1.5–2.5 mm, inner margins forming U; lip becoming strongly deflexed, triangular-lanceolate, 2.1–5 × 1.2–3.4 mm; spur curved, mostly deflexed, (7–)9–15(–18) mm; viscidia broadly elliptic-ovate, 0.4–0.6 × (0.2–)0.3–0.4 mm; rostellum blunt. <b>Capsules</b> 4–11 mm. <b>Seeds</b> cinnamon brown. <b>2n</b> = 42.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Forest chaparral, dry, open sites, usually away from the immediate coast
|elevation=0–1600 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Plants of the California Channel Islands are smaller, have narrower viscidia than typical plants, and flower earlier (May–June).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Piperia elongata
|author=
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Habenaria elegans var. elata;Habenaria unalascensis subsp. elata;Habenaria unalascensis var. elata;Piperia elegans var. elata
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Forest chaparral, dry, open sites, usually away from the immediate coast
|elevation=0–1600 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1901
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1178.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Orchideae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Orchideae) subtribe Orchidinae
|genus=Piperia
|species=Piperia elongata
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