Biorepository Data Portal
Home
Search
Sample search
Map search
Dynamic Species List
Taxonomic Explorer
Images
Image Browser
Image Search
Datasets
Research Datasets and Special Collections
Carabidae Checklists with Keys
Mosquito Checklists with Keys
Checklist: Research Sites - Invertebrates
Checklist: Research Sites - Plants
Checklist: Research Sites - Vertebrates
Sample Use
Sample Use Policy
Sample Request
Sample Archival Request
Dataset Publishing
How to Cite
Additional Information
Tutorials and Help
Biorepository Staff
About NEON
NEON Data Portal
ASU Biocollections
About Symbiota
Getting Started
Login
New Account
Sitemap
Tropidia
Family:
Orchidaceae
Images
not available
FNA
Resources
James D. Ackerman in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Herbs, terrestrial, cespitose, erect. Roots branched. Rhizomes short, rigid. Stems erect, branched or simple, reedlike, slender, hard. Leaves few, cauline; sheaths not articulate; blade convolute, plicate, thin. Inflorescences terminal or occasionally from axils of distal leaves, few- to many-flowered panicles [racemes, rarely glomerate], pedunculate [sessile]. Flowers resupinate, small; sepals subequal; lateral sepals distinct [connate at base], forming small mentum; petals similar to sepals, slightly falcate, shorter than sepals; lip sessile, base saccate; column short, fleshy, with short foot; anther abaxial, erect, subequal to rostellum, more than 1/2 length of column; pollinia 2, sectile; stigma entire; viscidium terminal. Fruits capsules, oblong, cylindric.
Tropidia polystachya
Images
not available
Map not
Available