Pygmypipes

Monotropsis odorata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 479. 1817
Schweinitzia odorata Raf. Am. Mo. Mag. 3: 99. 1818. Schweinitzia caroliniana G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 867. 1834.
Plants 51 1 cm. tall, the stems usually clustered, purple or pmplish-brown ; leaves mostly 3-8 mm. long, the blades deltoid-ovate to ovate, obtuse or acute; flowers violet-scented; sepals oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8-12 mm. long, mostly acute or acutish, membranous in age ; corolla pink, about equal to the calyx in length, the lobes ovate, much shorter than the tube.
Type IvOCALITy: Stokes County, North Carolina. Distribution: Maryland to Kentucky, Georgia, and Alabama.

Monotropsis reynoldsiae (A. Gray) A. Heller, Cat. N. Am
PL 5. 1898.
Schweinitzia Reynoldsiae A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 301. 1885.
Plants more slender than the two preceding species, 4-13 cm. tall, the stems often clustered, purple; leaves mostly 2-6 mm. long, the blades ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or short-acuminate; flowers more or less fragrant; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate or rarely linear, 2-4 mm. long, mostly acutish, often erose near the apex, membranous in age; corolla white, much longer than the calyx, the lobes ovate, much shorter than the tube.
Type locality: Near St. Augustine, Florida, Distribution: Eastern Florida and the Indian River region.

Monotropsis lehmaniae Burnham, Torreya 6: 235. 1906
Plants 4-10 cm. tall, the stems mainly brownish-purple; leaves mostly 2-6 mm. long, the blades ovate, often very broadly so at the base of the stem, obtuse or acute; flowers not fragrant; sepals narrowly oblong to linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 7-8 mm. long, or slightly broadened upward, mostly obtuse or obtusish, membranous in age; corolla mainly pink, much shorter than the calyx, the lobes as long as the tube or nearly so.
Typb i<ocal,ity: Roaring Gap, Blue Ridge, North Carolina. Distribution : Western North Carolina.