Corallorhiza

BR.

Leafless , red-brown , erect, terrestrial herbs; rhizome coralloid , ointed . Scape simple, sheathed; flowers small , whitish , in a terminal spike or raceme . Sepals . Sepals and petals subequal , linear ; petals ascendign , incurved . Lip clawed , adnate to the base of the column, erect , entire or 3-lobed , spur minute or 0. Column erect, incurved; anther 4-celled; pollinia 4, ovoid . soft, cohering by a viscus. -Species about 12,in N. temperate regions .