NEOTTIAJacq. - Twayblade
Scientific Description:
Robust perennial leafless brownish saprophyte without chlorophyll. Rhizome creeping, short, bearing a dense nest-like mass of fleshy roots. Stem usually solitary. Raceme dense, flowers numerous, lower ones with short twisted pedicel. Sepals and petals ± alike. Labellum 2-lobed, spurless. Column rather short; rostellum with sensitive viscidium; pollinia 2, bipartite, free. Ovary cylindrical-ovate, straight, ± glandular; pedicel twisted (upper ones subsessile).
Reference:
Renz J & Taubenheim G (1984). Neottia Guettard, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 456.
Public Description:
Neottia, commonly known as “twayblade”, is native to Europe, Türkiye, northern Asia, and North America. There are approximately 64 species in the world and 1 species (1 taxon) in Türkiye. This genus includes non-photosynthetic small parasitic terrestrial orchids with small, in shades of green, yellow, brown or red to purple flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neottia, Accessed date: 09.05.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Orchidaceae/Neottia/, Accessed date: 09.05.2017.
Güler N (2012). Neottia Guett., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 638.
