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Bletia
Family:
Orchidaceae
Aidan Campos
FNA
Resources
James D. Ackerman in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Plants herbs, terrestrial, cespitose, sympodial. Roots fleshy, velamentous. Stems short, stout rhizomes and pseudobulbs. Leaves deciduous, 3-5, basal and cauline, petiolate; blade articulate, pleated, thin. Inflorescences lateral, racemes or sparsely branched panicles, erect, scapose, 3-80-flowered; floral bracts distant, tubular. Flowers resupinate; sepals and petals subsimilar, distinct; lip attached to base of column, margins entire to 3-lobed; disc smooth, lamellate or with 5-7 denticulate crests; column elongate, arcuate, sometimes winged distally; anther terminal, incumbent; pollinia 8 in 2 sets of 4, yellow, compressed, hard, waxy or rarely mealy; stigma entire; ovary pedicellate. Fruits capsules, cylindric.
Species within inventory project:
UF CONSERVATION AREAS
Bletia florida
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Bletia patula
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Bletia purpurea
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This project made possible through support from the UF Planning, Design & Construction and the UF Office of Sustainability
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