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Definition of Listera cordata

1. Noun. Orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rust-colored flowers with the lip flushed mauve; Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Listera Cordata

Literary usage of Listera cordata

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

1. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... perfect adaptation of the several organs—Listera cordata— Neottia nidus-avis ; its fertilisation effected in tlie same manner as in Listera—Thelymitra, ..."

2. The Orchids of New England: A Popular Monograph by Henry Ives Baldwin (1884)
"With so much that is immediately presented to the eye, how can the Tway- blade, Listera cordata, tiniest of our Orchids, hope to turn your steps toward her ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1905)
"In Listera cordata, Narthecium ossifragum, ... On the other hand, Listera cordata is essentially a shade-loving species, and its leaves are not xerophytic m ..."

4. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston, William Jardine (1838)
"... Listera cordata, and perhaps Linnaea borealis are of most general occurrence, and more plentiful than some of theothers; Arbutus uva-ursi, ..."

5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Listera cordata R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 5: 201. 1813. Stem very slender, glabrous or nearly so, 3'-Io' high. Leaves sessile, cordate, ovate, ..."

6. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Vet. Akad. Handl. (II.) 21 : 232 (1800). 1261. Listera cordata (L.) R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 5: 201 Ophrys cordata L. Sp. Pl. 946 (1753). 9. ..."

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