Key to Corallorhiza

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(For a list of species in Corallorhiza, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Lip 

entire 

Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).

, stripes 3–5, ± red to ± purple, faint or not, mentum 0; lower sepals curved forward ..... C. striata

1' Lip with 2 

lobes 

1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.

laterally, stripes 0, mentum at base; lower sepals 

spreading 

Oriented more or less perpendicularly to the axis of attachment; often, more or less horizontal.

or curved forward

2. Sepal veins 1; lower sepals curved forward ..... C. trifida

2' Sepal veins 3; lower sepals spreading

3. Lateral lobes of lip 

acute 

Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle.

, prominent or not ..... C. mertensiana

3' Lateral lobes of lip rounded, prominent ..... C. maculata

4. Lip ± not widening to tip ..... var. maculata

4' Lip widening to tip ..... var. occidentalis

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