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Bletia
Bletia
Family:
Orchidaceae
Flora of North America
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 inventory project:
Arizona Flora
Bletia amabilis
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Bletia antillana
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Bletia campanulata
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Bletia coccinea
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Bletia ensifolia
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Bletia florida
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Bletia gracilis
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Bletia macristhmochila
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Bletia patula
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Bletia purpurea
Bletia reflexa
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Bletia roezlii
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Bletia rosea
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