Piperia elegans (Lindl.) Rydb.

  • Authority

    New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Orchidaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Piperia elegans (Lindl.) Rydb.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Stem slender, strict, 4-7 dm. high: tuber ellipsoid, about 2 cm. long, 1 cm. in diameter: basal leaves 2 or 3; blades lanceolate or oblanccolate or rarely oval, acute or obtuse, 8-15 cm. long, 1-3, sometimes even 5 cm. wide; stem-leaves much reduced, lanceolate, acuminate, 5-10 mm. long: spike long and usually lax, 1.5-3 dm. long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, from half to fully as long as the flowers: these greenish-white, about 1 cm. long sepals about 5 mm. long; the upper lanceolate, acute; the lateral ones linear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse: petals lanceolate, acute; blade of the lip broadly or ovate-lanceolate, slightly hastate and truncate at the base; median ridge rather indistinct; spur filiform, 10-12 mm., about two and a half times as long as the lip and longer than the ovary.

  • Discussion

    Type: "In America horcali occidoitali, Douglas (hab. s. sp. comm. Soc. Hort).''

    British Columbia: Vancouver Island, 1887, John Alacoun.

    Washington: W. Klikitat county, 1885, W. N. Suksdorf.

    Oregon: Grave Creek Hills, 1887, Thomas Howell; 1871, Elihu Hall, 506.

    Idaho: Priest Lake near lower end, 1900, D. T. MacDougal, 168 ; Priest River valley, 134; Kootenai county, 1887, J. H. Sandberg ; Wiessner's Peak, 1892, Samiberg, MacDougal & Heller, 584 (broad leaved).

    California: Santa Lucia Mountains, 1898, R. A. Plaskett, 167 ; 1872, Mrs. Bancroft.

  • Distribution

    British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California.

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