Neottia

Neottieae subtribe Listerinae. Recently Szlachetko has proposed a more broadly defined Neottia including species previously placed in Listera. These two genera are maintained in this work.

Achlorphyllous saprophytes. Roots coralloid. Stems erect, with tubular, non-foliaceous bracts. Inflorescences terminal spicate racemes. Flowers cupped. Sepals and petals free, spreading. Lip unlobed with a bilobulate apex, sessile, subsaccate at the base. Column straight, cylindric, the anther dorsal; pollinia 4, mealy, sessile on a minute viscidium.

A genus of nine species from Eurasia.

Furuse, M. and S.-C. Chen 1988. The discovery of Archineottia (Orchidaceae) in Japan. Acta Phytotax. Sinica 26(1):69-73.

Jurcak, J. 2000. Die Wurzelanatomie von Neottia nidus-avis (L.) Rich. (Orchidaceae) unter Berücksichtigung der Mykorrhiza. Die Orchidee 51(3):[039]-[043].

Schick, B., G. Kunze and J. Bond 1987. Rostelldifferenzierung und Pollinarienbildung europaischer Orchideen, 3. Zur Morphologie und Histologie des Rostellums von Neottia nidus-avis (L.) Rich. Die Orchidee 38:197-201.