Neottia cordata

Pisipisi salebi

Syn: Listera cordata

Stem very slender, ±glabrous. Leaves deltoid-cordate to triangular, sessile, thin, to 2.5 x 2.5 cm. Raceme short, rather lax, 5-l2-flowered. Bracts minute. Petals and sepals ± spreading, green, tinged reddish-brown, c. 1.5-2 mm diam. Labellum flat, 3.5-4 mm, reddish, with 2 basal dentate lateral lobes, middle lobe deeply divided into 2 lanceolate-acuminate diverging segments. Ovary globular, straight, pedicel often not twisted. Fl. 6-7. Humid mossy Picea & Abies forests on acidic soils, 1600-2200 m.

N., W. & C. Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, Siberia, N. America.