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Basiphyllaea
Family:
Orchidaceae
FNA
Resources
James D. Ackerman in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Herbs, terrestrial, sympodial, glabrous. Roots few, velamentous, fleshy, villous. Stems subterranean tubers, rhizomes, and erect, delicate, aerial shoots. Leaves deciduous, 1-2, basal; blade articulate, conduplicate, margins entire. Inflorescences terminal, few-flowered racemes or sometimes branched, erect, scapose. Flowers resupinate; perianth not fully spreading, distinct and free; sepals lanceolate to linear-lanceolate; petals linear-elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblanceolate; lip 3-lobed, middle lobe small, obovate to subquadrangular, apex notched to retuse, lateral lobes clasping column, broad, rounded; disc lamellate; column elongate, arcuate, slender; anther terminal, operculate; pollinia 8, hard, waxy; ovary pedicellate; stigma entire. Fruits capsules, erect, ellipsoid.
Basiphyllaea angustifolia
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Basiphyllaea carabiaiana
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Basiphyllaea corallicola
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Basiphyllaea hamiltoniana
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Basiphyllaea sarcophylla
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Basiphyllaea wrightii
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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