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= Goodyera pubescens =

Other names:
Satyrium indet.

Goodyeara indet.

Neottia pubescens

Common names: Downy rattlesnake-plantain and Downy rattlesnake-orchid

Physical Description
Leaves are distinctly lined with green or white veins, broadly elliptic to ovate. Leaf size: 2.1-6.2cm x 1.3-3 cm. The leaf apex (leaf tip) can be acute or obtuse. The inflorescence can vary from 10-57 cylindrical flowers with a peduncle 11-35cm long. Flowers: Lateral sepals 3.1-5.3mm long; distinct petals; hood 3.6-5.7mm long; Lip scrotiform 2.5-4.2 mm x 2.2 - 3.5 mm; Apex is abruptly bent backwards/downwards (reflexed); The flowers outer surface is slightly bumpy (tuberculate), inner surface has thicker veins, without glandular processes (not hairy on the underside unlike the surface.) Anthers are bent inwards (inflexed), Anthers are within a cup-shaped cilnandrium (a structure found in Orchidaceae at the tip of the flowers beneath the anther) with a blunt apex; blunt pollinia; Rostellum has a 0.1-0.4 mm deep notch; viscidium orbiculate 2n=26 (abnormal chromosome number)

Distribution and Habitat
Goodyera pubescens can be found natively in the eastern and mid eastern United States ranging as far western as Oklahoma and being found along the entire east coast. It can also be found in the eastern parts of Canada (Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Quebec).

Resources to use for the article as I write it:

http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=2040 (species page)

https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Neottia.pubescens (JSTOR herbarium example)

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101641 (Eflora description w/ OG article name at top)

http://www.labunix.uqam.ca/~fg/MyFlora/Orchidaceae/Goodyera/Pubescens/pubescens.e.shtml (University Page?)