Corallorhiza trifida explained

Corallorhiza trifida, commonly known as early coralroot, northern coralroot, or yellow coralroot, is a coralroot orchid native to North America and Eurasia, with a circumboreal distribution. The species has been reported from the United States, Canada, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, India, Nepal, Kashmir, Pakistan, and almost every country in Europe.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Description

Corallorhiza trifida is yellowish green in color, leafless, and partially myco-heterotrophic, deriving some, but not all of its nutrients from association with fungi of genus Tomentella.^[7] It also contains chlorophyll, with which it supplies some of its own carbon nutrition via autotrophy.^[7]

External links

• • • Jepson Manual Treatment - Corallorhiza trifida

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=47090 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Gleason, H. A. & A.J. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (ed. 2) i–910. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx.
3. Böcher, T. W. 1978. Greenlands Flora 326 pp.
4. Porsild, A. E. & W. Cody. 1980. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northwest Territories Canada i–viii, 1–607. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.
5. Tolmatchev, A. I. 1963. Arkticheskaia Flora SSSR 4: 1–96.
6. http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=corallorhiza+trifida Flora Italiana, Corallorhiza trifida Chatel.
7. Zimmer, K., et al. (2008). The ectomycorrhizal specialist orchid Corallorhiza trifida is a partial myco-heterotroph. New Phytologist 178:2 395-400.