Fig. 1. Pyrola minor L. (Pyrolaceae), morph with more or less oblong leaves (Finland, Lohja, Jalassaari, 1999). – Image: Harri Harmaja (scanned from dried specimen). – This plant grew in rich woods on calcareous soil, together with the large-leaved plant depicted in Fig. 2. This kind of plants are not infrequent, stands sometimes growing side by side with stands of typical plants with more or less elliptic leaf blade. My occasional observations sometimes suggested that the capsule size and shoot structure might also vary somewhat in the species. The variability in the leaf blade in P. minor may nevertheless lack essential taxonomic relevance.
Fig. 2, Pyrola minor, morph with large leaves (Finland, Lohja, Jalassaari, 1999). – Image: Harri Harmaja (scanned from dried specimen). – The plant grew in rich woods on calcareous soil, together with the oblong-leaved plant of Fig. 1.
Created August 6, 2004.