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Bletia
Family:
Orchidaceae
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 checklist:
Vascular Plants of Sonora, Mexico
Bletia campanulata
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Bletia purpurea
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Bletia roezlii
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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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