Flora of North America species comparison

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Monotropsis

genus monotropa and Greek, pygmypipes
Habit Herbs, achlorophyllous, heterotrophic.
Stems

absent.
Leaves

absent.
Inflorescences

racemes, arched at emergence from soil, becoming erect in fruit, axis fleshy but not fibrous, usually not persistent after seed dispersal, violet to purple, 0.1–0.4 cm diam. proximal to proximalmost flower.
Pedicels

nodding at anthesis, erect but not elongating in fruit;

bracteoles usually present.
Flowers

radially symmetric, nodding;

sepals 5, distinct, lanceolate-ovate;

petals 5, connate, purplish to violet, without basal tubercles, (surfaces ± glabrous), corolla campanulate;

intrastaminal nectary disc present;

stamens 10, included;

filaments uniformly slender, glabrous;

anthers ovoid, without awns, without tubules, dehiscent by 2 oval slits;

pistil 5-carpellate;

ovary 1-locular;

placentation intruded-parietal;

style straight, slender;

stigma capitate, angular, without subtending ring of hairs.
Fruits

baccate, erect, (fleshy), indehiscent, (axis fleshy).
Seeds

25–200, ovoid, not winged.

Monotropsis
Distribution
from USDA
e United States; se United States
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1: e, se United States.

Species 1

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 394. Author: Gary D. Wallace.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Monotropoideae
Subordinate taxa
M. odorata
Name authority Schweinitz: in S. Elliott, Sketch Bot. S. Carolina 1: 478. 1817 ,
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