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| Photo
by Renee Brecht |
Britton and Brown. See
credits below. |
| Botanical name: |
Listera
australis
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| Common
name: |
Southern
twayblade
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| Synonomy |
Ophrys australis
(Lindl.) House |
| Group: |
Monocot |
| Family: |
Orchidaceae |
| Growth
Type: |
Forb/herb |
| Duration: |
Perennial |
| Plant
height: |
1.5-3 dm
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| Flower
color: |
reddish or greenish-purple, in a
terminal raceme |
| Flower
size: |
lip 10 mm, deeply cleft into linear
setaceous porrect lobes
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| Flowering/fruiting time |
April-early May; seed capsules
dehisced and broken up by end of May
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| Habitat: |
Shaded bogs and wet woods, mainly on
the coastal plain; sphagnous thickets
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| Range in
New Jersey: |
Middle and Pine Barrens district
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| Heritage ranking if any |
S2, listed Pinelands |
| Misc.: |
USDA
lists as a facultative wetland species. Usually occurs in wetlands
(estimated probability 67%-99%), but occasionally found in non-wetlands.
This plant may be somewhat more common than once thought; the
difficulty in finding this plant may be due more to its size and
coloration and flowering time.
Stone notes: "In 1818 Barton states that the plant is 'very rare in the
dark swampy wood bordering a road leading from Kaighn's Point to the
Woodbury road'...Just how many stations were known to the older
botanists I cannot say, but they all seem to have been in the immediate
vicinity of Camden, and all seem to have been covered by the
encroachment of the city and adjoining towns. It was therefore, a
matter of no small interest when Mr. Geo. W. Bassett, on June 1, 1908,
found a specimen of Listera
in a cedar swamp on Alberson's branch...an entirely new locality.
Possibly further search in cedar swamps will result in its discovery
elsewhere." (376)
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Genus name dedicated to Martin
Lister, 1638-1711, a celebrated English naturalist. |
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