Definition of Listera convallarioides

1. Noun. Small orchid with two elliptic leaves and a slender raceme of small green flowers; western North America.

Exact synonyms: Broad-leaved Twayblade
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Listera, Listera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Listera Convallarioides

Lisplike
Lissajous curve
Lissajous curves
Lissajous figure
Lissauer
Lissauer's bundle
Lissauer's column
Lissauer's fasciculus
Lissauer's marginal zone
Lissauer's tract
List 99
Lister's dressing
Lister's method
Lister's tubercle
Listera
Listera convallarioides
Listera cordata
Listera ovata
Listerella
Listeria denitrificans
Listeria grayi
Listeria monocytogenes
Listerian
Listerism
Listing's law
Listing's reduced eye
Liston
Liston's knives
Liston's shears
Liston's splint

Literary usage of Listera convallarioides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Kew. Ed. 2, 5: 201 (1813). 1259. Listera australis Lindi. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 456 (1840). listera convallarioides Eli. Bot. SC & Ga. 2: 494 (1824), not Torr. ..."

2. List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Growing Without Cultivation in by Botanical Club (1894)
"Kew. Ed. 2, 5: 201 (1813). 1259. Listera australis Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 456 (1840). listera convallarioides Ell. Bot. SC & Ga. 2: 494 (1824), not Torr. ..."

3. The Orchids of New England: A Popular Monograph by Henry Ives Baldwin (1884)
"Our larger species, listera convallarioides, due ten days or so later in damp places along brooks, ... Flower of listera convallarioides. (Anther removed. ..."

4. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray, Charles Sprague Sargent (1889)
"... and in similar situations throughout the mountains of North Carolina, we found plenty of the northern listera convallarioides, in fine state, ..."

5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1899)
"The leaf of listera convallarioides is oval and obtuse at both ends, while the lip is cut by a U-shaped sinus." The writer, in company with Stewardson Brown ..."

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