Pterospora

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Monotropaceae

• Scientific Name

  Pterospora

• Description

  Genus Description - Cor gamopetalous, urceolate, 5-lobed, persistent; stamens 10; filaments flattened, elongate; anthers thick-triangular, somewhat inflexed but not strongly inverted, each pollen-sac opening by a large lateral slit and with a retrorse, filiform appendage at the morphological base; ovary 5-locular; style columnar, short; stigma fleshy, capitate, shallowly 5-lobed; capsule depressed-globose, deeply umbilicate, loculicidal, opening from the morphological base toward the distal end; seeds with a broad terminal wing; pink to reddish or purplish (or eventually brownish) plants with small scale-lvs and long racemes of nodding fls and frs. Monospecific.

• Common Names

  pine-drops