Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Calopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus Bletia purpurea Hexalectris warnockii	Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi

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.

Distribution

s Fla., Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America

Discussion

Species 31 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Bletia patula, Bletia purpurea

Key

1	Sepals (12–)15–26 mm; pedicellate ovary 9–18 mm; column foot present.	Bletia purpurea
1	Sepals 30–40 mm; pedicellate ovary 20–35 mm; column foot absent.	Bletia patula

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