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Definition of Listera ovata
1. Noun. Orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia.
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Listera, Listera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Listera Ovata
Literary usage of Listera ovata
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 Fertilised by Insects by Charles Darwin (1904)
"... perfect adaptation by which the pollen of a younger flower is carried to the
stigma of an older flower on another plant—listera ovata; sensitiveness of ..."
2. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"fig. 84, c represents a section of the Epipactis, and D is a front view of the
column. Of all the British Orchids, the listera ovata, or Twayblade (fig. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1856)
"listera ovata.—The rostellum of listera ovata is divided by parallel septa into
a series of longitudinal elongated loculi, which taper from the base upwards ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1856)
"listera ovata.—The rostellum of listera ovata is divided by parallel septa into
a series of longitudinal elongated loculi, which taper from the base upwards ..."
5. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1854)
"n The author first gives au account of the form and structure of the rostellum
of listera ovata, and its relation and position to the anther and stigma. ..."
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