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	Monotropa hypophegea  WALLR.

APG-Fam.: Ericaceae / Heather Fam.       Fam. tradit.: Pyrolaceae / Wintergreen Fam.

Synon.:  Hypopitys hypophegea  G.DON

Genus:  Monotropa  L.,  Hypopitys  DILL. ex ADANS.

Authors:
	WALLR.:		Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth (1792 - 1857), German botanist
	G.DON:		George Don (junior, 1798 - 1856), Scottish botanist
	L.:		Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
	DILL.:		Johann Jakob Dillen ( = Dillenius, 1687 - 1747), German botanist
	ADANS.:		Michel Adanson (1727 - 1806), French botanist of Scottish descent

Etymology:
	Monotropa:		monos = single, tropos = direction
	hypophegea:		growing under beeches
	Hypopitys:		growing under firs

Fig. 1:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest Croatia, Velebit 29.6.2010

Fig. 2:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest Croatia, Velebit 16.7.2007

Fig. 3:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest Croatia, Velebit 16.7.2007

Fig. 4:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest Croatia, Učka 17.7.2010

Fig. 5:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest Croatia, Učka 17.7.2010

Fig. 6:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest Croatia, Učka 17.7.2010

Fig. 7:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest A Burgenland, Rumpersdorf 3.8.2011

Fig. 8:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest A Carinthia, Ulrichsberg 2.8.2011

Fig. 9:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest A Niedere Tauern, Sölk-Pass 26.7.2021

Fig. 10:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest A Niedere Tauern, Sölk-Pass 26.7.2021

Fig. 11:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest F Pyrenees, Col de Mantet 28.7.2018

Fig. 12:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest E Picos de Europa, Potes 16.8.2012

Fig. 13:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest D Franconia Gößweinstein 4.11.2015

Fig. 14:  Monotropa hypophegea / Yellow Bird's-Nest D Wachenheim 7.6.2018

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