Monographs Details:
Authority:
Ackerman, James D. 1995. An orchid flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 73: 1-203.
Ackerman, James D. 1995. An orchid flora of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 73: 1-203.
Family:
Orchidaceae
Orchidaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Plants sympodial, terrestrial herbs. Roots simple, fleshy, villous. Rhizomes fleshy, creeping, rooted at the nodes; internodes naked. Leaves nonarticulate, cauline, spirally arranged, petiolate, sheaths short, tubular, blades plicate, thin. Inflorescences pedunculate, terminal, erect, racemose, many-flowered. Flowers resupinate, small. Sepals free. Petals connivent with dorsal sepal forming a hood over the column. Lip partially adnate to the sides of the column and provided with a basal nectar spur. Column short; stigmas 2, approximate, rostellum elongate; anther dorsal, erect; pollinia 2, sectile, caudicles attached to a viscidium. Fruit a capsule.
Genus Description - Plants sympodial, terrestrial herbs. Roots simple, fleshy, villous. Rhizomes fleshy, creeping, rooted at the nodes; internodes naked. Leaves nonarticulate, cauline, spirally arranged, petiolate, sheaths short, tubular, blades plicate, thin. Inflorescences pedunculate, terminal, erect, racemose, many-flowered. Flowers resupinate, small. Sepals free. Petals connivent with dorsal sepal forming a hood over the column. Lip partially adnate to the sides of the column and provided with a basal nectar spur. Column short; stigmas 2, approximate, rostellum elongate; anther dorsal, erect; pollinia 2, sectile, caudicles attached to a viscidium. Fruit a capsule.
Discussion:
Erythrodes Blume, Bijdr. 6: t. 1, f. 72. 1825. Type species. Erythrodes latifolia Blume of Malaya, Java, and Sumatra. A tropical and subtropical genus of the Americas, Asia, Malaysia, and Oceanic Islands and consistsing of about 100 species. The generic name refers to the reddish flowers of some species. Special Literature. Garay & Sweet, 1974; Garay, 1977.
Erythrodes Blume, Bijdr. 6: t. 1, f. 72. 1825. Type species. Erythrodes latifolia Blume of Malaya, Java, and Sumatra. A tropical and subtropical genus of the Americas, Asia, Malaysia, and Oceanic Islands and consistsing of about 100 species. The generic name refers to the reddish flowers of some species. Special Literature. Garay & Sweet, 1974; Garay, 1977.