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Salisbury ex Gray

Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 396, 403. 1822..

Common names: Woodnymph single delight one-flowered wintergreen monésès uniflore
Etymology: Greek monos, one, single, and hesis, delight, alluding to attractive, solitary flower
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 384. Mentioned on page 374, 378.
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Latest revision as of 19:37, 6 November 2020

Herbs, chlorophyllous, autotrophic. Stems erect, glabrous or papillose distally. Leaves cauline, sometimes appearing basal, alternate or pseudoverticillate in 1–4 whorls; petiole present; blade not maculate, broadly elliptic to orbiculate, subcoriaceous, margins crenate-serrate to serrate, plane, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences solitary flowers, not lax in bud or flower, erect in fruit; peduncular bracts present or absent. Pedicels absent. Flowers radially symmetric, spreading or nodding; sepals 5, connate proximally, often obscurely so, calyx lobes ovate to narrowly ovate; petals 5, distinct, creamy white, without basal tubercles, corolla rotate to broadly campanulate; intrastaminal nectary disc absent; stamens 10, included; filaments broad proximally, gradually narrowed medially, slender distally, glabrous; anthers oblong, without awns, with tubules, dehiscent by 2 round pores; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary imperfectly 5-locular; placentation intruded-parietal; style (exserted), straight, expanded distally; stigma 5-lobed, without subtending ring of hairs. Fruits capsular, erect, dehiscence loculicidal, no cobwebby tissue exposed by splitting valves at dehiscence. Seeds ca. 1000, fusiform, winged. x = 11, 12, 13, 16.

Distribution

North America, Eurasia, circumboreal.

Discussion

Species 1: North America, Eurasia; circumboreal.

Species 1

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

... more about "Moneses"
Craig C. Freeman +
Salisbury ex Gray +
Woodnymph +, single delight +, one-flowered wintergreen +  and monésès uniflore +
North America +, Eurasia +  and circumboreal. +
Greek monos, one, single, and hesis, delight, alluding to attractive, solitary flower +
Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. +
Undefined subfam. Pyroloideae +, Undefined tribe Monotropaceae +  and Undefined tribe Pyrolaceae +
Moneses +
Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae +