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Tropidia
Family:
Orchidaceae
Jake Antonio Heaton
FNA
Resources
James D. Ackerman in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Herbs, terrestrial, cespitose, erect. Roots branched. Rhizomes short, rigid. Stems erect, branched or simple, reedlike, slender, hard. Leaves few, cauline; sheaths not articulate; blade convolute, plicate, thin. Inflorescences terminal or occasionally from axils of distal leaves, few- to many-flowered panicles [racemes, rarely glomerate], pedunculate [sessile]. Flowers resupinate, small; sepals subequal; lateral sepals distinct [connate at base], forming small mentum; petals similar to sepals, slightly falcate, shorter than sepals; lip sessile, base saccate; column short, fleshy, with short foot; anther abaxial, erect, subequal to rostellum, more than 1/2 length of column; pollinia 2, sectile; stigma entire; viscidium terminal. Fruits capsules, oblong, cylindric.
Species within inventory project:
UF CONSERVATION AREAS
Tropidia polystachya
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