Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:
Orchidaceae
Orchidaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Sympodial herbs, epiphytic, epilithic, or terrestrial; roots velamentous; stems slender and sometimes branched, or pseudobulbous from a creeping rhizome. Leaves articulate, distichous, conduplicate. Flowers variously colored, frequently green, from axillary or terminal racemes, panicles, or subumbels; lip usually adnate to the length of the column; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, the pollinia 4 or rarely 2, laterally compressed, hard, waxy; stigma entire, the rostellum slitlike and oriented to the axis of the column. Fruit capsular.
Distribution and Ecology - A neotropical genus of several hundred species.
Genus Description - Sympodial herbs, epiphytic, epilithic, or terrestrial; roots velamentous; stems slender and sometimes branched, or pseudobulbous from a creeping rhizome. Leaves articulate, distichous, conduplicate. Flowers variously colored, frequently green, from axillary or terminal racemes, panicles, or subumbels; lip usually adnate to the length of the column; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, the pollinia 4 or rarely 2, laterally compressed, hard, waxy; stigma entire, the rostellum slitlike and oriented to the axis of the column. Fruit capsular.
Distribution and Ecology - A neotropical genus of several hundred species.