Checkered Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera tesselata
Summary 2
Goodyera tesselata is a plant in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), called by the common name checkered rattlesnake plantain. It is native to eastern Canada from Manitoba to Newfoundland, and to the northeastern United States from Maine to Maryland, west to Minnesota .
Description 3
Leaves: blade with lateral veins and sometimes midrib prominently to faintly bordered with bands of white, gray, or paler green tissue frequently merging, giving leaf rather blotched appearance, especially near margins and apex where veins are closer together, infrequently uniformly green or with only midrib whitened, narrowly elliptic to ovate, 1.4–5.5 × 0.9–2.6 cm, apex usually acute. Inflorescences densely to loosely spiraled or secund, 5–72-flowered; peduncle 6–23 cm. Flowers: lateral sepals 3.8–6 mm; petals connivent; hood 3.9–7.1 mm; lip deeply concave to saccate, 3–5.5 × 1.2–3.1 mm, apex spreading or recurved, blunt or acute, inner surface with 2 or 4 unequal rows of glandular papillae; anther erect, base 0–1/3 immersed in shallowly concave to cup-shaped clinandrium, apex apiculate to acuminate; pollinia acute or short-acuminate; rostellar beak 2-pronged, 0.6–1.7 mm, equal to or longer than body of stigma; viscidium elliptic. 2n = 45, 60.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/18024068@N00/4814075943
- Adapted by bpff from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyera_tesselata
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5018358
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- eFloras.org
- Flora of North America (beta)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Go Botany
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- Maryland Biodiversity Project
- NatureServe Explorer 2.0
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- USDA PLANTS database
- VASCAN by Canadensys
- World Flora Online
